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.

Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K.

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

In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody is saying. Somebody might actually be saying something.

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

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