Before this generation goes on to its ancestors, we should, we must, do our level best to pass on our lessons, so that they live in our people's minds and lives.

Elie Wiesel says that the greatest evil in the world is not anger or hatred, but indifference. If that is true, then the opposite is also true: that the greatest love we can show our children is the attention we pay them, the time we take for them. Maybe we serve children the best simply by noticing them.

Conventional wisdom would have one believe.

Very few people in prison have voices that go beyond the wall. It's my job to do the work for them because they have no one.

The role of television is the illusion of company, noise. I call it the fifth wall and the second window: the window of illusion.

Politics is the art of making the people believe that they are in power, when in fact, they have none.

I spend my days preparing for life, not preparing for death.