I'm into eating as little as possible, paying as little attention as possible. I never cook. Never use the stove or anything.

Sectors of power are not going to favor the flourishing of dissidence.

What can you do to mitigate the likelihood that Iran will develop nuclear weapons? There's a very simple method: move towards establishing a nuclear-weapons-free zone, which everybody in the world wants, but the US blocks.

Modern China; one also finds many things that are really quite admirable.

Violence can succeed, as Americans know well from the conquest of the national territory. But at terrible cost. It can also provoke violence in response, and often does.

I grew up in that, when I was a kid. My friends and I used to play cowboys and Indians. We were cowboys killing the Indians, following the Wild West stories. All of this combined into a very strange culture, which is frightened.

We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.