Once you wake up the human animal, you can't put it back to sleep again.

Don't be an examiner, be the interested inquirer.

Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece with the planned obsolescence of the things they make. Or sell.

Ordinary people are capable of doing extraordinary things, and that's what it's all about. They must count.

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.

I'd want the human voice expressing grievances, or delight, or whatever it might be. But something real

We're born eventually to die, of course. But what happens between the time we're born and we die? We're born to live. One is a realist if one hopes.