Find your horse. Discover the direction the horse is going. Ride the horse in that direction.

Ultimately, censorship comes down to taste. What offends me may enlighten you. Do you want me deciding-based on my taste-what you should or should not be exposed to?

We have a problem with drugs? Let's declare war on drugs! We have a problem with crime? Let's declare war on crime! We have a problem with violence? Let's declare war on violence! The deeply ingrained American attitude that we can solve any problem w/enough force creates, feeds, & rewards the epidemic of violence we are currently experiencing.

Pain (any pain--emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories: We would be more alive if we did more of this and Life would be more lovely if we did less of that. Once we get the pain's message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away.

Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear.

If you're not actively involved in getting what you want, you don't really want it.

I'd have a nervous breakdown except that I've been through this too many times to be nervous.