I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and rhythms mean something to you besides just the academic way in which they fall in place.

Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout philosophy.

But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.

When a violent minority that crosses color lines comes to believe that killing those you know or do not know is a reasonable solution to problems, we are in need of another vision.

People don't really think other people are the same.

Big business, for all its lobbying, is often put in line by investigative reporting, public scandals and multi-million-dollar judgments in court against those who put products on the market that are dangerous to their buyers.

You must be willing to accept the fact that pain is a part of the process of revelation.