Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your own life.

the meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead

Fear is the penalty of consciousness forced to stare at itself.

I now believe that evolution, or deevolution, never ends short of death, that no society has ever achieved an absolute pinnacle, that all humans are not created equal. In fact, I believe attempts to create some abstract equalization create a morass of injustices that rebound on the equalizers. Equal justice and equal opportunity are ideals we should seek, but we should recognize that humans administer the ideals and that humans do not have equal ability.

Killing with the point lacks artistry, but don't let that hold your hand when the opening presents itself.

But, later, coming back and reading what I have produced, I am unable to detect the difference between what came easily and when I had to sit down and say, "Well, now it's writing time and now I'll write.

Time can also be a place.... Everything depends on where you are standing, on where you look or what you hear. The measure of it is found in consciousness itself.