Everybody is under pressure to shut up and sing.

Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval.

I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is nirvana.

Science may have come a long way, but as far as religion is concerned, we are first cousins to the !Kung tribesmen of the Kalahari Desert. Except for the garments, their deep religious trances might just as well be happening at a revival meeting or in the congregation of a fundamentalist TV preacher.... As we move further from the life of ignorance and superstition in which religion has its roots, we seem to need it more and more.... Why has religion become a force just when we'd have thought it would be losing ground to secularism?

I believe celebrity spoils people - some worse than others.

December 25th has become guilt and obligation.

I have been in the witness protection program for the last three weeks. I campaigned for Ralph Nader. I'm now living as a woman in Mississippi.