All wars derive from lack of empathy: the incapacity of one to understand and accept the likeness or difference of another. Whether in nations or the encounters of race and sex, competition then replaces compassion, subjection excludes mutuality.

Surely the hold of great music on the listener is precisely this: that the listener is made whole; and at the same time part of an image of infinite grace and grandeur which is creation.

One is as one is, and the love that can't encompass both is a poor sort of love.

The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.

I don't think it's possible to write a good play or paint a good picture and be a good Republican.

Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.

All wars derive from lack of empathy: the incapacity of one to understand and accept the likeness or difference of another. Whether in nations or the encounters of race and sex, competition then replaces compassion, subjection excludes mutuality.