When a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment.

People don't want other people to be people.

Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real.

Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities.

There is no magic. There is only knowledge, more or less hidden.

Time turns our lies into truths.

Only the brave know how to forgive. ... A coward never forgave it is not in his nature.

The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.

As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home.

Close to the Edge by Yes. Such a fun tune to play on bass.

Take care, lest an adventure is now offered you, which, if accepted, will plunge you in deepest woe.

Love ... Just Nature's way of getting one person to pay the bills for another person.

If you just literally stand still for a while, listen and think, things will eventually get sorted out.

Collaboration is risky. If it fails, if the occupation is wound up prematurely and the bad guys come back to power, you might find yourself in some serious trouble.

Within one generation, Los Angeles will be uninhabitable if people don’t do something about it. The world is going to get smaller and be uninhabitable and impossible to live in.

I love cameras but I find myself reluctantly taking pictures because what's past is past.