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

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

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.

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!

Apocalypse could not be repealed by the democratic process.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.

... i didn't fall in love of courseit's never up to youbut she was walking back and forthand i was passing through

One who practices pure religion soon discovers it is more rewarding to lift a man up than to hold him down.

An excellence mind pursues perfecting, not perfection.

Even monkeys fall from trees.

He looked like an evil male model, showing off what the fashionable college-age villain was wearing to Harvard this year.

I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.

The things you see are real, but they are not a complete seeing - Samsara.

You don't know how many people come up to me and say, 'This child was conceived listening to you.'

A truly religious man does not embrace a religion; and he who embraces one has no religion.

The enthusiasm for [Donald] Trump had gone up. The net result was it made people more supportive of him.