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Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.

I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.

While I love walking past those beautifully lit bookstores in my neighborhood, what I mostly buy there are blank notebooks and last-minute presents for children's birthdays.

Skiing fast feels like complete freedom to me.

Protests, such as those in favor of labor rights, women's suffrage, civil rights and gay rights, helped to make America as great as it is.

Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.

Even with politics, stuff comes around again. Woody Guthrie would recognize America today.

So from an angry lawman's mouth, the Outlaw Motorcyclists were born.

Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools - only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art.

The controversy between Darwinism and intelligent design has the characteristics of major scientific revolutions in the past. Darwinists are losing power because they treat with contempt the very people on whom they depend the most: American taxpayers. The outcome of this scientific revolution will be decided by young people who have the courage to question dogmatism and follow the evidence wherever it leads.

If I could do theater during the hiatus and then do '30 Rock' in the winter, that would be my ideal job.

Healthy camel crickets spend a lot of their waking hours grooming, so I have learned to recognize the ones that will soon die because they walk about encrusted with sand and bits of litter, having lost all interest in keeping clean.

Managers are trained to make incremental, programmatic improvements. They aren't trained to lead large-scale change.

I was gutted to leave my boyfriend at home when I started my tour, but taking my pillow was like taking a little bit of him with me.

Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.

The biggest challenge facing a missionary today is to forget himself and lose himself in the work.

I encourage people not to be passive consumers of music and of culture in general. And feeling like, yeah, you can enjoy the products of professionals, but that doesn't mean you don't have to completely give up the reins and give up every connection to music or whatever it happens to be.

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand. ... Simplify, simplify.

Corporate corruption has ecological merits. It's helping to preserve that species known as Democrats - thought to be endangered as recently as the year 2000.

Food for the ego is poison for the soul.