We are living in the United States of Alzheimer's. A whole country has lost its memory. When it can't remember yesterday, a country forgets what it once wanted to be.

'Curiosity never killed this cat’ — that’s what I’d like as my epitaph.

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

You know, 'power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely'? It's the same with powerlessness. Absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely. Einstein said everything had changed since the atom was split, except the way we think. We have to think anew.

The answer is to say 'No!' to authority when authority is wrong.

Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it is my responsibility to make it better. Interweave all these communities and you really have an America that is back on its feet again. I really think we are gonna have to reassess what constitutes a 'hero'.

Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.