after listening to the President's state of the union address

To be awake is to protest.

We live under a tidal wave of misinformation, where the past is buried and dredged up as the future, and the present is something only the birds are capable of watching.

Sex is the place where each one of us is allowed to go into the unknown with some degree of confidence and the possibility of having fun.

There are some people that when you're with them you want to be somewhere else.

The problem with democracy is that each one of us places too high a value on the self.

Power, as manifested in the presently constituted political milieu, is the ultimate avoidance of reality, in which those who say one thing and do another are extremely well paid.

Loneliness lasts a long time, yet casts the kind of light where something good might actually happen.