The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small 'yes' at the center of a vast 'no.'

We affect one another quite enough merely by existing. Whenever the stars cross, or is it comets? fragments pass briefly from one orbit to another. On rare occasions there is total collision, but most often the two simply continue without incident, neither losing more than a particle to the other, in passing.

We have been at war almost constantly since the last century. And it has not helped our institutions. Congress no longer represents the people. The courts do not practice justice any more. The armies never stop playing at being the policemen of the world and of oil.

I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people, yes, but any religion based on a single...

History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.

As Brooks Adams put it, the sole problem of our ruling class is whether to coerce or to bribe the powerless majority.