The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.

But lies were what people wanted; that was politics.

On the river path in Boston beauty was most expressed as youth and intelligence. That made sense; sixty degree-giving institutions, some three hundred thousand students; that meant at least one hundred fifty thousand more nubile young women than demographics would ordinarily suggest. Maybe that was why young men stayed in Boston when their college years were over, maybe that explained why they were so intellectually hyperactive, so frustrated, so alcoholic, such terrible drivers.

Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability. And very often expressed in curves.

History is a wave that moves through time slightly faster than we do.

Rock is much more malleable than ideas.

It is always the teacher who must learn the most... or else nothing real has happened in the exchange.