America is ready for intelligent talk. I am ready to bring some humanity to TV.

His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.

I grew up all around the world, and when I settled in a suburb in America, I didn't have any idea what I was supposed to wear.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

We let them help because they needed it, not us. We didn't let them help us because we needed it, we let them help us because inside of humans is this thing, this unnamed need to feel as if we are usefel in the world. To feel as if we have something significant to contribute."---Cullen

Most people are on the world, not in it — have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them — undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.