Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police are dogs, politicians are all liars and scum, and any crime that's not committed by the Mafia is done by the CIA.

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

What we need in America is a renaissance. We need to go forward by going backward.

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

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.

If you're going to get in the ring and try to take the belt, you have to prepare to get hit.

Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police are dogs, politicians are all liars and scum, and any crime that's not committed by the Mafia is done by the CIA.