I used to get nervous about three weeks before a gig... now I've managed to condense it down to a manageable ten minutes.
The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.
I'm not going to waste my time worrying about these Confederate statues. That's wasted energy.
With increased awareness should come greater caution about how confessions are used at trial - and a greater willingness to overturn convictions when it becomes clear that a confession was untrue.
Confessions are not processed or analysed; they're told in a moment of desperation to a priest or to somebody interrogating you about a crime.
I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
I have recurring nightmares about being in a Nazi concentration camp with all my family and constantly being sent to solitary confinement.
I've got weird conflicting feelings about my generation.
We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories.
I don't care much about conforming.
'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.
My whole life has been about confronting cynicism.
Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.
Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.
All we hear about Africa in the West is Darfur, Zimbabwe, Congo, Somalia, as if that is all there is.
The NSA routinely lies in response to congressional inquiries about the scope of surveillance in America.
Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.
Being called 'conscious' is a great thing to be, but it's the connotations and preconceived notions that come with the buying audience about what conscious music can be.
The bear is what we all wrestle with. Everybody has their bear in life. It's about conquering that bear and letting him go.
