A zest for living must include a willingness to die.

Evolution is a process that never stops. Baboons who fail to exhibit moral behavior do not survive; they wind up as meat for leopards.

If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.

The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance.

People simplify 'Apollonian' into 'mild', and 'calm', and 'cool'. But 'Apollonian' and 'Dionysian' are two sides of one coin--a nun kneeling in her cell, holding perfectly still, can be in ecstacy more frenzied than any priestess of Pan Priapus celebrating the vernal equinox.

Life is short, but the years are long.

Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent.