I think there is an evolving art taking place on Broadway.
Facebook in particular is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented.
Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love.
What are the differences between Mark Zuckerberg and me? I give private information on corporations to you for free, and I'm a villain. Zuckerberg gives your private information to corporations for money and he’s Man of the Year.
You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion.
We all only live once. So we are obligated to make good use of the time that we have and to do something that is meaningful and satisfying. This is something that I find meaningful and satisfying. . . I enjoy helping people who are vulnerable. And I enjoy crushing bastards.
The only way to keep a secret is to never have one.
Warmakers are often wrong. . . . Peace advocates are sometimes right, especially when their ideas are not only morally sound but politically realistic
We "need" cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.
You can do anything, but you can't do everything
If the dominant political expression that we're seeing right now is of nostalgia and we know that nostalgia won't really work out, what happens is, we become depressed as individuals and societies - when we're depressed, we're much more vulnerable to be taken advantage of by demagogues and xenophobes.