We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.

Pleasure, no matter how desirable, is never innocent: it's always presupposing and assuming a certain kind of social order, one usually shot through structures of domination.

Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.

I believe philosophy must go to school with the poets; it's not either/or, it's not over or against.

I was blessed to be part of a commercial, pushing for this energy bill, but we've been unsuccessful.

Faith is stepping out on nothing and landing on something.

To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak.