You see, when you're middle class, you have to live with the fact that history will ignore you. You have to live with the fact that history can never champion your causes and that history will never feel sorry for you. It is the price that is paid for day-to-day comfort and silence. And because of this price, all happinesses are sterile; all sadnesses go unpitied.

You know what the best thing is about the end of the day? Tomorrow, it starts all over again.

We sleep heavily because we need to ask so many questions as we dream alone.

What is prayer but a wish for the events in your life to string together to form a story -- something that makes some sense of events you know have meaning.

I think that to acknowledge a new generation is to acknowledge some degree of obsolescence in yourself, and that is very hard to do and often comes with undeniable anger.

Kids today do nothing. They're so apathetic. We used to go out and protest. All they do is shop and complain.

Technology favors horrible people.