Whether all is really lost or not depends entirely on whether or not I am lost.

By perceiving ourselves as part of the river, we take responsibility for the river as a whole.

We live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain.

Without commonly shared and widely entrenched moral values and obligations, neither the law, nor democratic government, nor even the market economy will function properly.

I am in favor of [actions] that have authenticity, roots, originality, verve, balance, taste, communicativeness, challenge, relevance to their time-in short, things that make sense.

If a single writer in a country is in chains, then there are some links of that chain that binds us all.

Either we have hope within us or we don't It is a dimension of the soul, and is not essentially dependent on some particular observation of the World or observation of the situation. Hope is not prognostication. It is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart.