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.

Christians, and some Jews, claim we're in the "end times," but they've been saying this off and on for more than two thousand years.

Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of solitude can be ever so much more delicious and intense.

Don't be outraged, be outrageous.

Actually, there are countless ways to live upon this tremorous sphere in mirth and good health, and probably only one way - the industrial, urbanized, herding way - to live here stupidly, and man has hit upon that one way.

Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper.

One has not only an ability to perceive the world but an ability to alter one's perception of it; more simply, one can change things by the manner in which one looks at them.