I feel blessed in the knowledge that I probably belong to the last generation that will remember what we call "traditional America."

Neither our own passing nor the passing of an era is a tragedy, no matter how much we would like to think it is.

Hackberry Holland's greatest fear was his fellow man's propensity to act collectively, in militaristic lockstep, under the banner of God and country. Mobs did not rush across town to do good deeds, and in Hackberry's view, there was no more odious taint on any social or political endeavor than universal approval.

The story of Ulysses and Agamemnon and Menelaus, of Jesus, of the Good Knight of Chaucer, lives in every one of us.

Why do I always feel like you're trying to staple my umbilical cord to the corner of your desk?

I sometimes subscribe to the belief that all historical events occur simultaneously, like a dream in the mind of God. Perhaps it is only man who views time sequentially and tries to impose a solar calendar upon it. What if other people, both dead and unborn, are living out their lives in the same space we occupy, without our knowledge or consent?" The Glass Rainbow, p. 138

Don't let anyone tell you that age purchases your freedom from fear of death.