What children don't understand, and can't understand until they grow up some, is how much the whole fabric and process of human society depends on everybody agreeing to ignore, most of the time, the fact that all of us are, most of the time, inadequate, incompetent, pitiful, and, in fact, naked to our enemies. None of us really has very much in the way of spiritual, moral clothing. We dress ourselves in rags. And we agree to say nothing about it. To a very large extent, it is human charity that clothes us.

The law of evolution is that the strongest survives.

In art, 'good enough' is not good enough.

Scientific truth will out, you can't hide the sun under a stone.

It's a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you've been to all the places you don't need to be.

People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.

Can true function arise from basic dysfunction?