If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway.

I don't know any women who don't think about what they look like, and I don't know any men who don't think about what women look like.

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

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

The discussion of ideas as opposed to the American narcissistic obsession with what's going on with the self, that's the general thing people are talking about.

Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.

Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately.