What's the difference between the Lone Ranger and God? There really is a Lone Ranger.

I'm happy to respect authority when it's genuine authority, based on moral or intellectual or even technical superiority. I'm eager to follow a hero if we can find one. But I tend to resist or evade any kind of authority based merely on the power to coerce. Government, for example. The Army tried to train us to salute the uniform, not the man. Failed. I will salute the man, maybe, if I think he's worthy of it, but I don't salute uniforms anymore.

Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?

Wealth should come like manna from heaven, unearned and uncalled for. Money should be like grace -- a gift. It is not worth sweating and scheming for.

Life is cruel? Compared to what?

Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.