George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography.

The economy is a thoughtless weather system.

Ideas on earth were badges of friendship or enimity. Their content did not matter. Friends agreed with friends, in order to express friendliness. Enemies disagreed with enemies, in order to express enimity.

Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.

There are plenty of good reasons for fighting.

If there really had been a Mercutio, and if there really were a Paradise, Mercutio might be hanging out with teenage Vietnam draftee casualties now, talking about what it felt like to die for other people's vanity and foolishness.

Luck is not the hand of God.... Luck is the way the wind swirls and the dust settles eons after God has passed by.