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

Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height.

Paradise is the here and now, the actual, tangible, dogmatically real Earth on which we stand. Yes, God bless America, the Earth upon which we stand.

The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values.

Metaphysics is a cobweb that the mind weaves around things.

Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.

The "terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.