Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.

Susan Sontag: What she really wanted, throughout her career, was to grow up to be a Frenchman.

The axiom of conditioned repetition, like the binomial theorem, is nothing but a piece of insolence.

Freedom begins between the ears.

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

From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.

This is the most beautiful place on Earth. There are many such places. Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind the image of the ideal place, the right place, the one true home, known or unknown, actual or visionary.