I'm not sure I've learned anything new about life; but I've had to think harder about death and what comes after for other people.
Tony Judt
I would say that I have become more radical as I have gotten older. I started out very radical when I was young, like most people, but I became less... →
American social arrangements, economic arrangements, the degree of inequality in American life, the relatively small role played by the government in... →
I don't want to be the passively alert vegetable in the corner that takes in everything but can't communicate, which I think would suck a lot... →
I was born accidentally. I lived accidentally in London. We nearly migrated to New Zealand. So much of my life has been a product of chance, I... →
No one wants to live in a wheelchair unable to talk, only winking once for yes and twice for no. It's perfectly reasonable that there will come a... →
I won't deny that I have a far more productive writing life without the Internet, mostly because I rekindle my ability to concentrate on one... →
Heidi Julavits
It was a very profound experience, getting in touch with that part of us, in all of us human beings, that is committed beyond yourself to the point... →
Raul Julia
We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation.
I remember, as a boy of 17 years of age, this was a fascinating thing for me: how we human beings breathe out carbon dioxide into the air, the leaves... →
Percy Julian