The time is out of joint.
I'm a sarcastic person. I learn through humor.
Clearly, there has been a lack of imagination about how much can go wrong.
There`s a reason people pause their lives to engage in political activism and pressure their local political leaders. Because as a whole, even if you can`t identify any one instance, as a whole pressure works and sometimes it starts with something as simple as pushing the button on the intercom.
If you're someone people count on, particularly in difficult moments, that's a sign of a life lived honorably.
Here’s the thing about rights. They’re not actually supposed to be voted on. That’s why they’re called rights.
I'm undoubtedly a liberal, which means that I'm in almost total agreement with the Eisenhower-era Republican party platform.
One fast move or I'm gone,' I realize, gone the way of the last three years of drunken hopelessness which is a physical and spiritual and metaphysical hopelessness you can't learn in school no matter how many books on existentialism or pessimisn you read, or how many jugs of vision-producing Ayahuasca drink, or Mescaline take, or Peyote goop up with -
The interesting thing is that you don't have to know the answers - simply asking the questions and your reflection itself causes the rewiring of the brain.
It's sweeping through our society faster than crack. [Except] with crack you could say, 'These people over here are doing it, adn these people aren't. ' You can't do that with Ecstacy now. Everyone's doing it.
The bestway to diffuse an argument is to listen first, second, and last.