"Our desires are never wholly transparent, even to ourselves."

“Never before, I suspect, have so many people been so rich to so little purpose.”

“We tend to think of the problems of globalization and cultural identity as peculiar to our times. In fact they are rooted in ancient problems of civic belonging.”

“All social space is suffused with political meanings and agendas, the very stones and walls a kind of testament to the ongoing struggles for liberation and justices.”

“We are capitalism made flesh.”

“Dreams are evidence that we are creatures who produce more meaning than we can ourselves understand.”

“How doe we create the world we want, rather than a world that just happens to us?”