Don't talk to me about other worlds, separate realities, lost continents or invisible realms -- I know where I belong. Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.

Humility is a virtue when you have no other.

Shakespeare wrote great poetry and preposterous plays. Who really cares, for example, which petty tyrant rules Milan? Or who succeeds to the throne of Denmark? Or why the barons ganged up on Richard II?

One day in Dipstick, Nebraska, or Landfill, Oklahoma, is worth more to me than an eternity in Dante's plastic Paradiso, or Yeats's gold-plated Byzantium.

Terrorism: deadly violence against humans and other living things, usually conducted by government against its own people.

When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.

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