All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library.

If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficient. I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have.

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

I'm not up on the Internet, but I hear that is a democratic possibility. People can connect with each other. I think people are ready for something, but there is no leadership to offer it to them. People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are part of a world.

Hope never trickles down. It always springs up.

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.

When I was asked: "Will shame do it?" Meaning: Will welfare people be shamed into getting respectable work? And I said that shame plays the biggest role there is: The biggest shame is that there is so much abundance around but that so many have so little and so few have so much. That's the shame.