Deep is the chasm between the centuries, but by bridging it a man may return home.

In my anger, I slew you twice. I saw you only as the dragon, and I forgot what you were meant to be. Can you forgive me?"--Etanun

The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination.

What a terrible thing, I thought, to let a moment go.

Sweets to the sweet farewell!

You are what you repeatedly do

Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book.

As Ethiopia goes, so goes the whole Horn of Africa - a region where instability can have major security and humanitarian implications for the United States and Europe.

We all know how cats feel about traveling in a car. You never see a cat with his head out the window, fur flying in the breeze. A cat is never anyone's designated driver.

This is the way the mind functions: its whole interest is in that which you have not got.

The very energy sources that have gotten us to where we are now are also, if we continue doing what we're doing, a shortcut to the end of all that we hold near and dear.