I should not yield to it, he told himself once again as he walked along carrying the briefcase. Compulsion-obsession-phobia. But he could not free himself. It in my grip, I in its, he thought.

Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find.

A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope.

We are all insects. Groping towards something terrible or divine.

I am a mask, concealing the real.

I want to have the eyes of an adult to see the world as it is, but I more desperately want to have the heart of a child to make certain that I never forget what it could be.

I must be lean & write & make worlds beside this to live in.

Physically it is impossible for a bee to fly, but because it believes it can then it can.

It seems to be almost a law of physics, that the winds of change awaken fear and fundamentalism.

Wine invents nothing; it only tattles.

It is impossible to give a soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him.

Scoops of mint ice cream with chips of chocolate cows.

The discovery of various phenomena has led to a recognition of the fact that the chemical atom is an individual which again is itself made up of several units into a selfcontained whole.

Don't you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career?

The way to really create justice for workers in America is to create job growth.