Plans are one thing and fate another. When they coincide, success results. Yet success mustn't be considered the absolute. It is questionable, for that matter, whether success is an adequate resposne to life. Success can eliminate as many options as failure.

Not naive,' Conch shell had corrected him. 'He simply has not been taught to fear the things you fear.

O tequila, savage water of sorcery, what confusion and mischief your sly, rebellious drops do generate

Survival is not important. What matters is how you survive.

In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create order. In times such as ours, however, when there is too much order, too much management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relive the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption.

You've heard of people calling in sick. You may have called in sick a few times yourself. But have you ever thought about calling in well

Leave it to a naive world-saver like you to view our love as a Sacred Cause when in actual fact all it was was some barking at the moon.