One thing I hate about school committees today is that they cut arts programs out of the curriculum because they say the arts aren't a way to make a living.

kar.a.bek.i.an (n.); (from Rabo Karabekian, U.S. 20th Cent. painter). Fiasco in which a person causes total destruction of own work and reputation through stupidity, carelessness or both.

It is just an illusion here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone, it is gone forever.

People should practice an art in order to make their souls grow and not to make money or become famous. Paint a picture. Write.

I am an atheist (or at best a Unitarian who winds up in church quite a lot).

. . . but the Universe is an awfully big place. There is room enough for an awful lot of people to be right about things and still not agree.

The person who writes the bank's commercials is not the person who makes the loans.