Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.

Money confers the power to command the labor of others. Love of money is love of power. And love of power is the root of evil.

It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy.

The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while.

To meet God or Medusa face to face, even if it means risking everything human in myself. I dream of a hard and brutal mysticism in which the naked self merges with the nonhuman world and yet somehow survives still intact individual, separate. Paradox and bedrock.

Yes, there are plenty of heroes and heroines everywhere you look. They are not famous people. They are generally obscure and modest people doing useful work, keeping their families together and taking an active part in the health of their communities, opposing what is evil (in one way or another) and defending what is good. Heroes do not want power over others.

My computer tells me that in twenty-five years there will be no more computers.