Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow.

Every budding dictatorship begins by muzzling the artists, because they're a mouthy lot and they don't line up and salute very easily.

We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat.

That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some direction. There wasn't even an enemy you could put your finger on.

Come away with me, he said, we will live on a desert island. I said, I am a desert island. It was not what he had in mind.

But some people can't tell where it hurts. They can't calm down. They can't ever stop howling.

There's nothing like a shovel full of dirt to encourage literacy.