I was forced to think very hard about what it meant to be me, what it means to be a person who is only a brain. Pascal's 'thinking reed' really does capture it, because I'm just a bunch of dead muscles thinking.

Part of what separates us from the other creatures on earth is that we make up stories. We are storytellers. And we can tell bad stories and we can tell good stories. We can tell stories that lead to division and hate and war. Or we can tell stories that lead to cooperation and peace and progress.

To me and, I think, to all of us, it was a realization that our world is finite, it is small, it is fragile, and we need to start thinking about how to take care of it.

There were so many needs for us to continue to work for freedom, because I didn’t think that we should have to be treated in the way we were, just for the sake of white supremacy, because it was designed to make them feel superior, and us feel inferior. That was the whole plan of racially enforced segregation.

This week it’s I Fall In Love Too Easily by Chet Baker.

Has to be the poet Harry Guest.

In life you can do whatever you want as long as you don’t complain when you pick up the bill.

I don’t think I am either as ruthlessly selfish as I was then, but I think that unhappiness made me terribly terribly selfish.

I took Nicole out to dinner for the first time on 19 October, 1991. After that, everything changed.

People need justice.