“Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent.”

“There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life...”

“The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism.”

“Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't.”

“If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.”

“A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.”

“Things don't have to change the world to be important.”

“They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves at the sight of used tires stacked high...”

“The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.”

“If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and...”