To hear, one must be silent.

Progress means nothing to presence.

That I was not dueling with the king, but trying to communicate with him, was itself an incommunicable fact.

Abstractions about right and wrong, whether they are as old as Thou Shalt Not Kill or as modern as Do Your Own Thing, often serve only to confuse and weaken genuine moral decision.

Having one king, one god, one belief, they can act single-mindedly.

No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.