Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow clumsy, error-strewn working out of an individual or collective path.

In today's US, it's possible for almost anyone - women, gays, African-Americans, Jews - to run for, and be elected to, high office.

Our lives teach us who we are.

How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.

I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.

I'm not saying I am never going to fall in love again, but there is no need to marry.

Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.