Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.

To respect Louis Farrakhan, we must understand, is simply to agree with him... If dissent is now also to be thought of as a form of 'dissing,' then we have indeed succumbed to the thought police.

I think that a lot of us, whether we are religious or not - there are no words to express some things except religious words. For instance, 'soul.'

There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that it's not so but behind locked doors there are usually high emotions running.

Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence.

Shame is like everything else; live with it for long enough and it becomes part of the furniture.

A book is not completed till it's read.