Though both erotica and pornography refer to verbal or pictorial representations of sexual behavior, they are as different as a room with doors open and one with doors locked. The first might be a home, but the second could only be a prison.

Perhaps the worst thing about suffering is that it finally hardens the hearts of those around it.

It's a big gift to be recognizable as part of something that matters to people, but that's not the same as being responsible for something.

To me, the model of success is not linear. Success is completing the full circle of yourself.

You do have all five sense when you're in a room together. You communicate and understand each other in a much deeper way. It is a different form of communication from writing or being on the web.

There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.

Voting isn't the most we can do. But it is the least.