Art, science, philosophy, religion -- each offers at best only a crude simplification of actual living experience.

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.

Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we borrow from Christianity, science, American Indian traditions and world literature in general, including philosophy, and let the rest go hang? Borrow what we need but rely principally upon our own senses, common sense and daily living experience.

Henry James was our master of periphrasis -- the fine art of saying as little as possible in the greatest number of words.

Simply because humankind have the power now to meddle or 'manage' or 'exercise stewardship' in every nook and cranny of the world does not mean that we have a right to do so. Even less, the obligation.

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

A man without a horse is like a man without a weapon: stunted and naked.