Unlike real relationships, virtual relationships are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when compared with the heavy, slow-moving, messy real stuff.

The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the weakest pillar. I have always believed that you do not measure the health of a society by GNP but by the condition of its worst off.

Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.

The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of.

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.

I'm going to fight to the death for a public option.

Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.