Most of us do know we have no immortality. And when you've found a genius, someone who has already purchased his immortality in musical or literary terms, it's maddening.

Any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principal which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being evil.

Stupidity has a price and it always gets paid.

I despair at the rise of modern violence. I truly give in to despair at times, that deep, futureless pit of despair.... I watch the American slaughterhouse, the casual attacks on popes, presidents, and uncounted others, and I wonder if there are many more out there with the Ability or if butchery has simply become the modern way of life.

Words are the light and sound of our existence, the heat lightning by which the night is illuminated.

I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher

If our god's work is to be done in our time, we must do it ourselves.