Pastoral Resources

The show originally started out as a ten hour mini-series. We shot two hours and then were excused for a while, for no apparent reason. Things went very quiet for a time and then a few months later we were called back and told that it was going to be a full season.

My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals.

We got involved in the Rwanda peace process for the simple reason that there was a decision which was taken by the Security Council, because the troops were in Uganda, and we decided to have a military presence.

In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don't think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it.

I'm kind of a quirky dresser usually. Like today, I'm actually pretty put together, but I dress kind of off sometimes, but that's just part of my personality.

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

No, I feel like my personality probably influenced the character, more than the character influenced me.

But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.

I stagnated in prison a long time, and I have wasted most of my life.

I discourage a cult of personality.

Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent.

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

Is there any reason why the American people should be taxed to guarantee the debts of banks, any more than they should be taxed to guarantee the debts of other institutions, including merchants, the industries, and the mills of the country?

One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that.

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

The progressive movement against the war of occupation in Iraq is a reason for hope, as is resistance to free trade agreements in Latin America. Those are moments that we have to celebrate: that people still find the resolve and energy to resist.

Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.