Why does life need evidence of life?

Pleasure is terrifying because it breaks down the boundaries between people. Embracing passion means living with fear.

We've shown again and again, in every UN report on the status of women, that wherever women control their own bodies and have access to education, societies prosper. Men's fortunes go up, children's fortunes go up. This is not news - it's been proven repeatedly. Anywhere those things are threatened, we have to defend them.

Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.

art is not advocacy and advocacy is not art.

Nothing you write is ever lost to you. At some other level your mind is working on it.

As yet we use our media only for selling things - including, of course, political candidates. What will happen when someone masters the art of selling souls?