When we come to an edge we come to a frontier that tells us that we are now about to become more than we have been before.

In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.

Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos.

The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.

Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change.

One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off.

If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.

Science is the storytelling of our time.

The future is beyond knowing, but the present is beyond belief.

In a world in which men write thousands of books and one million scientific papers a year, the mythic bricoleur is the man who plays with all that information and hears a music inside the noise.

Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education, healthcare and retirement.

I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.

To wash and dress a corpse is a far different thing from making it alive: Man can do the one--God alone can do the other.

No one writes dialect better than Flannery O'Connor. No one should even try.

Hear ye not the hum Of mighty workings?

Once upon a time the world was sweeter than we knew. Everything was ours; how happy we were then, but then once upon a time never comes again.

What are you doing here?" she asked. "You forgot something when you left Halstead Hall," he said hoarsely. "What?" Her heart lept into her throat as he strode purposefully toward her. "Me.

The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.

It's an actor's job to play all the human conditions - light, dark, and medium.