It is the abiding concern of thinking people to preserve what keeps men human-to save our contact with nature of which we are a part.
People without memory are putty.
But we need to be very clear: because of our decades of collective denial, no gradual, incremental options are now available to us.
When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?
Anybody who claims that they know where this whole thing is all going is just lying.
We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.
The world now has a new kind of hero, one who listens more than speaks, who preaches in riddles not in certainties, a leader who doesn't show his face, who says his mask is really a mirror. And in the Zapatistas, we have not one dream of a revolution, but a dreaming revolution.
D. C. is a hard city to grow up in. I couldn't find my footing there. Also, I got a late start academically, and I was dyslexic.
I think I'm careful. My goal is to try to stay away as much from opinion journalism as possible.
The German people are an orderly, vain, deeply sentimental and rather insensitive people. They seem to feel at their best when they are singing in chorus, saluting or obeying orders.
I just don't want to get used to feeling this feeling, you know, losing basketball games.