Pain and darkness have been our lot since the Fall of Man. But there must be some hope that we can rise to a higher level ... that consciousness can evolve to a plane more benevolent than its counterpoint of a universe hardwired to indifference.

The young remember most deeply.... When we are old and failing, it is the memories of childhood which can be summoned most clearly.

Words were like objects, making the idea more solid -- less a poisonous gas and more a ... cube of crystallized thought.

Barbarians, we call them, while all the while we timidly cling to our Web like Visigoths crouching in the ruins of Rome's faded glory and proclaim ourselves civilized.

If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include the truth of contact or be forever hollow.

Life doesn't retreat.

It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri