"In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is...

"What I need is someone who will make me do what I can." — Ralph Waldo Emerson A spectacular morning out there, hot and humid. It's...

Sitting here in Peg's chair on the patio listening to the bay lap against the riprap. A little breeze blows steady out of the south, with...

"Everybody is wondering what and where they all came from Everybody is worrying 'bout Where they're gonna go when the whole thing's done...

"Life is a journey, but don't worry, you'll find a parking spot at the end." - Isaac Asimov A brief post at the outset of a horrifically...

"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between." -Oscar Wilde Sitting here trying to...

“Taoism, on the other hand, is generally a pursuit of older men, and especially of men who are retiring from active life in the...

Once I get you up there, where the air is rarefied We'll just glide, starry-eyed Once I get you up there, I'll be holding you so near You...

"Reasonable--that is, human--men will always be capable of compromise, bur men who have dehumanized themselves by becoming the blind...

"Here it comes, here it comes, here it comes, here it comes Here comes your nineteenth nervous breakdown" -The Rolling Stones Taking a...

Radio silent the last few days because finals have begun at NYU, and I'm juggling that and an overwhelming work schedule and flying...

"Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going." - Tennessee Williams...

"The fountain of youth is dull as paint Methuselah is my patron saint I've never been so comfortable before Oh, I'm so glad that I'm not...

“It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square...

"Why work for peanuts when you can strive for randomness." -Jeff Slepski, human physiology teacher, Hemet High School, 1982 Yes, I went...

"Me, I want to live with my feet in Dixie And my head in the cool blue north" -Jesse Winchester The view from my office window isn't...

"We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it." - Robert Baden-Powell Pondering on this insomnia...

"Be careful of your thoughts, for your thoughts become your words. Be careful of your words, for your words become your actions. Be...

"He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe About to start a mediation I had on my...

"More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies." - Rudyard Kipling Back at my computer for the first time...