Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend.

The lead either forges an instant connection with the reader, or the package fails.

I think more and more people are recognizing how much adults and elders are actually needed. That's a gift of the sibling society.

The French still offer Sartre and Derrida rather than Pascal.

Every noon as the clock hands arrive at twelve, I want to tie the two arms together, And walk out of the bank carrying time in bags.

If you want to know what it will be like when we are more deeply into the horizontal, simply go to one of the Indian casinos. The Native Americans, who stand for vertical thinking more than anyone else in our culture, have been setting up totally flat casinos for honkies.

Myth and poetry represent a reservoir of vertical thinking, which we could also call longing and gratitude to ancestors. We need that gratitude desperately.