Solitude is only a good idea if you have the right people along to share it.

Throughout our long and sorry history it has been men who supposed themselves to be exemplars of integrity who have done all the damage. Every crusade, whether for decent literary standards or to cover women's bodies or to free the holy land, had been launched, endorsed, and enthusiastically perpetrated by men of character.

Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.

Solitude is only a good idea if you have the right people along to share it.

The cultures we can look at had already grasped the essential unity of nature. No board of gods can survive that knowledge.

Put the money into schools. Rational ones that train young minds to think, to demand that persons in authority show the evidence for the ideas they push. Do that, and we won't need to provide a world for the Sacred Brethren who, given the opportunity, would run everyone else off the planet.

Man has always seen himself the peak of creation. The part of the universe that thinks. The purpose for it all. It's no doubt a gratifying view, but the universe may have a different opinion.