Time has driven out sex and money as the central issues. Now if it could only drive out the issue of power we would be somewhere!

I think of spirit as that which evokes us - the lure of becoming that keeps calling. And I think of soul as that which gets us through the cartography of everyday life.

Ironically, we are all too often educated out of rather than in to an awareness of the body.

We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.

Journalists are among a select group, along with warriors and executioners who are authorized to do harm. As James Fallows says, a lot of journalists think that isn't so, and that everything will wash out ultimately. But I don't think they are aware of the long-term damage.

We're in a decaying culture now. Naturally, the young people in the culture are going to feel themselves to be products of the decay.

If you're looking ecologically, then we are in very big trouble, yes. But if you're talking about people sinking, I'm not so sure that's true. There are cycles of rise and fall, as there have been since time immemorial.