Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means ... the need to be left. I am driven to grudging toleration of the Conservative Part….

Libraries are brothels for the mind. Which means that librarians are the madams, greeting punters, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and ….

If you have really good intelligence, that truly does put the - I mean putting troops on the ground in some way..

Work accomplished means little. It is in the past. What we all want is the glorious and living present..

Nothing can be preserved that is not good..

Don't look back until you've written an entire draft, just begin each day from the last sentence you wrote the preceeding day. This prevents those cr….

Some will always be above others..

Make youself necessary to someone..

We pass for what we are..

I mean, if you go back to 1960 on major pieces of legislation, the filibuster was used about eight percent of the time..

Vulnerability is the only authentic state. Being vulnerable means being open, for wounding, but also for pleasure. Being open to the wounds of life m….

The way my brain processes information is quite odd. I mean, I have Attention Deficit Disorder and another learning disability I can't even spell. I ….

Wal-Mart workers make just over $8 an hour, and they must pay more than a third of their health insurance premium if they choose to take the company'….

It is the collective responsibility of the citizens in a modern state to ensure by all means necessary that its government adheres to the rule of law….

Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living..

Picturize, prayerize, actualize..

When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the doing of it, not on….

At the beginning we learn to travel, then we travel to learn..

I allow myself to get firmly sucked in. I love that! I come from that..

[I'm] more German than Irish..

Fear doesn't prevent death, but it certainly prevents life..