Why do men carry guns and build prison camps, when the nurturing earth is made for freedom?

I would distinguish between a visitor and a pilgrim: both will come to a place and go away again, but a visitor arrives, a pilgrim is restored. A visitor passes through a place; the place passes through the pilgrim.

Much of the academy on the humanities side, English departments in particular, no longer write what can pass for normal English.

The secular Jew is a figment; when a Jew becomes a secular person he is no longer a Jew.

Two things remain irretrievable: time and a first impression.

Wars, invented and organized by the highest available consciousnesses (do the worms go to war? do the fish? do the paramecia?), are the planet's chief source and cause of torment.

Resentment is a communicable disease and should be quarantined.