If there is knowledge, it lies in the fusion of the book and the street.

I want a language that speaks the truth.

You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist.

Tom Paine was a great American visionary. His book, Common Sense, sold a couple of hundred thousand copies in a population of four or five million. That means it was a best seller for years. People were thoughtful then. Hope is one thing. But you need to have hope with thought.

One of the definitive works on gay life. Through this collective testimony we may come to understand what it is to be 'the other'; in short, the other part of ourselves.

Dorothy Day said - and I'm sure that Kathy Kelly would say the same thing - 'I'm working toward a world in which it will be easier for people to behave decently.' Now, think about that: a world in which it will be easier for people to behave decently.

Cannot Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' be subject to transposition: the evil of banality?