If you close your eyes, you could just as well imagine me to be vintage Ali MacGraw, circa 1968.

If you close your eyes, you could just as well imagine me to be vintage Ali MacGraw, circa 1968.

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never.

By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never.

Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a read more

Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big furry goddess-creature who resembles everybody's mom in that she knows what's best for us. But if you look at the historical record -- Krakatoa, Mt. Vesuvius, Hurricane Charley, poison ivy, and so forth down the ages -- you have to ask yourself: Whose side is she on, anyway?

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that read more

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.

The stupendous fact that we stand in the midst of reality will always be something far more wonderful than anything read more

The stupendous fact that we stand in the midst of reality will always be something far more wonderful than anything we do.

Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of read more

Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.