T.S Elliot was wrong. My world ended with a bang the minute we entered the Compound and the silver door closed behind us. The sound was brutal. Final.

It's easier to revise lousy writing than to revise a blank sheet of paper.

I like to see a home like this, a home connected with people's thoughts and work, things they love.

Even as fog continues to lie in the valleys, so does ancient sin cling to the low places, the depressions in the world consciousness.

Yeah, well, wish in one hand, crap in the other, and see which fills up first

I suppose any note, no matter how sour, sounds like a song if you hold onto it long enough.

I quite agree with you. The sun is not kind. God should use a rose amber spot.

What does one tell a husband? One tells him nothing.

That night I dreamed of turduckens.

The true Mind is one that exists before and beyond one's delusional, self-centered, attachment-filled mind.

I count myself really fortunate that I have some lifelong friends. The best thing about a friend is when you are being your own worst enemy a friend can help snap you out of it.

Learning means change.

We have not long to live in any event. Let us spend what is left in seeking the unpeopled world behind the sunrise.

the more I live, the more I regret how little i know

I am more afraid of making a fault in my Latin than of the Kings of Spain, France, Scotland, the whole House of Guise, and all of their confederates.

There's never been a civilization that has rewritten what marriage and family means and survived.

Democracy, as has been said of Christianity, has never really been tried.

To the extent people can't solve a problem, they tend to ignore the problem.

But the devil is a subtle worm; he does not give up at one defeat, for he knows human nature, and the strength of the forces which battle for him.