"The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn't really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is."

"Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be."

"And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don't think anyone in my family would really feel I'd done them an injustice by saying that. We didn't see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home."

"I don't think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again."

"Everything I was afraid of when I was growing up, I've become. I've taken on my nightmares, like the devil and the end of the world, and I've become those things."

"Fear will knock at every door; only those with resolved hearts refuse to let it enter. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery."

"The greatest deception is forgetting that courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."

"To conquer fear is to realize that shadows are only cast by the presence of light."