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.

When you're artistic director of a program, you present the music you want to present.

Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence.

You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism.

But there are a number of attitudes that should not be emotionally or psychologically ingested by young people.

The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an etiquette that allows us to deal with each other because if we acted solely upon our impulse we'd probably go to war.

Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence.