What's bad for the country is always good for The Nation.

It seems to me there are good deficits and bad deficits. Now, we have a deficit that comes from the militarization of our society and our policy and our approach to the global arena.

Slice a pear and you will find that its flesh is incandescent white. It glows with inner light. Those who carry a knife and a pear are never afraid of the dark.

Mediate on the Scripture to nourish your soul.

The young princess was as beautiful as daylight. She was more beautiful even than the queen herself

Not a softness anywhere about me, Only whalebone and brocade.

[T]he myth that there was somehow a magic wand in the early 1980s to cure AIDS - a wand that Reagan deliberately refused to wave - is now almost conventional wisdom.

The bigger the headache, the bigger the pill.

I'm doing a little consulting. I'm somewhat retired, still a director of a company or two.

So much has already been said about Shakespeare that there doesn't seem to be anything more to say; yet it is the quality of the spirit that it forever stimulates the spirit.

There is something about guitars—maybe something magical—when played right, which evokes past, mysterious, barely-conscious sentiments, both individual and universal.

I've been lucky to be able to make the records I've wanted to make. The record company has never pressured me to cut certain songs.