Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.

The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses.

Is the Archbishop's blessing any more meaningful than the Politician's handshake? The come, they go, with bigger things than us on their minds.

Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!

The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one.

One must be reasonable in one's demands on life. For myself, all that I ask is: (1) accurate information; (2) coherent knowledge; (3) deep understanding; (4) infinite loving wisdom; (5) no more kidney stones, please.

I choose to listen to the river for a while, thinking river thoughts, before joining the night and the stars.