If the Kingdom of God is in you, you should leave a little bit of heaven wherever you go.

We live in a predatory capitalist society in which everything is for sale. Everybody is for sale, so there is ubiquitous commodification - be it of music, food, people, or parking meters.

I'd say, [writing memoir] not so much a model, but maybe to provide an insight, here or there, to help somebody come to terms with the dark corners of their own soul, to come to terms with the undecided, their own sense of self, and maybe help develop a capacity to love - to love wisdom, love justice.

There is always a very delicate interplay between individual actions and institutional conditions.

The rage is still there but I found the right kind of channel, because it's tied to a love, it's tied to a struggle for justice. And most importantly, for me, it's tied to a recognition that I am a cracked vessel.

It's impossible to translate Wall Street greed into one or two demands.

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