It doesn't matter how many pairs of shoes you have, how many cars you have, etc.... It's all utterly meaningless and yet we continue to pursue this. Why? Because they've learned they can stimulate our primal desires through selling us products.

A buddy of mine was addicted to heroin and he told me that people who say quitting cigarettes is harder than quitting heroin are wrong.

No one shuts their laptop after looking at pornography and says, 'What a productive time I just spent connecting with the world!'

How we treat the vulnerable is how we define ourselves as a species.

Democracy is a gleaming Excalibur - let's not use it just to mend the toaster.

Imagining the overthrow of the current political system is the only way I can be enthused about politics.

I missed him, of course, but sometimes close friendships have a tidal beat that pulls you towards different shores though the ocean that connects you remains.