It's been a great place to get in touch with what people are really thinking. And to make contact with readers and other writers. Egalitarian, wide open, like the Wild West!

Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.

Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again.

All it takes to get elected in twenty-first-century America is a mob of frightened sheep and a wolf with a nice smile.

Altruism is masked self-interest. Aggressive self-interest is a masked urge to self-destruction.

To fight an enemy properly, you have to know what they are. Ignorance is defeat.

Apocalypse could not be repealed by the democratic process.

Conservatism is not about tradition and morality, hasn't been for many decades... It is about the putative biological and spiritual superiority of the wealthy.

The price of freedom—of individuality—is attention to politics, careful planning, careful organization; philosophy is no more a barrier against political disaster than it is against plague.

There is no war so important that to win it, we must destroy our minds.

Sometimes the problem outshines the pain.

Oh my dear, no matter who you are, where you are, or how you are, I can hear your song. I can feel your pain, and I really care.

Love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love cannot be killed or swept aside.

Don’t allow your life to become just a dead ritual. Let there be moments, unexplainable.

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

The only thing wrong with marriage is that one of the persons involved is a man.

Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.

What Plato was really asking was perhaps why a horse was a horse, and not, for example, a cross between a horse and a pig.

Religion is hard work. Its insights are not self-evident and have to be cultivated in the same way as an appreciation of art, music, or poetry must be developed.

Life as we knew it is passing away, and something new is emerging to take its place, The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for a Radically New Life.

Between this day and the next you will give your life to something. The decision on what that will be will shape your destiny.