Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.

The rifle and handgun are 'equalizers' -- the weapons of a democracy. Tanks and bombers represent dictatorship.

A shelf of classics for our young adults: Tolkien, Hesse, Casteneda, Kerouac, Salinger, Tom Robbins, and _The Last Whole Earth Catalog_.

We know this apodictic rock beneath our feet. That dogmatic sun above our heads. The world of dreams, the agony of love and the foresight of death. That is all we know. And all we need to know? Challenge that statement.

There is beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere.

Poetry -- even bad poetry -- may be our final hope.

I'm a fastidious sort of fellow, fond of watermelon and buckbrush nuts.