Gods have many faces.

Europe has resurrected its pagan gods.

The body is like the wife to the spirit. The two must cohabit to create new forms, but their pleasures rarely coincide.

History is scraps of evidence joined by the glue of imagination.

When the mind grasps the universe, the senses retreat.

If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.

Men and women in their mutual attraction are driven to the very emptiness they are trying to avoid.

Once scientists and scholars invest parts of their career in support of a paradigm, it becomes a sort of a self-betrayal to abandon it.

Man is a mimic animal, happiest acting a part, needing a mask to tell the truth.

People embrace false magical theories in the hope something good will come out of them. In the most extreme of these, good comes out of them only at the end of this life, in paradise.

It takes a long time before we cease to feel proud of being wanted. Though God knows why we should feel it, when we look around and see who is wanted too.

After President Obama, President Rodriguez... What's the worse that can happen? The border problem gets solved and the White House lawn looks better?

Landmarks to the muses that inspired the music. When I could tell it was sincere without trying to prove it

Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.

Patriotism means advocating plunder in the interests of the privileged class of your particular country. The time will soon come when calling someone a patriot will be the deepest insult.

Chinese restaurants have long been a weekly or monthly ritual for many Americans.

I'm a happy guy, but if I'm in a rare dark mood, I won't go out because I don't want to be horrible to people.

It's not what I don't know that bothers me - it's what I do know and don't do!

Hoop Dancer is a rendering of my understanding of the process by which one enters into timelessness -- that place where one is whole.

The efficacy of a prayer depends not on the words but on the sincerity of intention.