“We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.”

“You’ve got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.”

“It seems to me that any law that is not enforced and can't be enforced weakens all other laws.”

“We are the result of processes much more complicated than the small aspects of our lives and societies over which we have some control.”

“[T]ime is much more elastic than our intuition of this rigid passage... The time interval between one point and another... depends on where you are.”

“Or is all this fuss actually important for << art history >>? Oh, no, never. If things only ever originated as a result of such competition (between subject- and subjectless art), it wouldn't be worth living among them, like an accidental, capricious toy. Clearly there is a greater, a more serene and more modest power, but we are either too lazy to live by its laws, or we have no time, or it "hurts too much."”

“We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.”

“The most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from want to affluence as the passage from labour to leisure”

“What scares me? The way the world is going. People seem to think that development is more important than sustainability. That fundamentalism is more important than openness. That racial differences should dictate political decisions. That a person's sexuality is somebody else's business.”

“Law enforcement ranks are filled with people like my grandfather. But, to be clear, although I am from a law enforcement family, and have spent much of my career in law enforcement, I’m not looking to let law enforcement off the hook. Those of us in law enforcement must redouble our efforts to resist bias and prejudice. We must better understand the people we serve and protect—by trying to know, deep in our gut, what it feels like to be a law-abiding young black man walking on the street and encountering law enforcement. We must understand how that young man may see us. We must resist the lazy shortcuts of cynicism and approach him with respect and decency.”