Wherever goodness lay$$$ it did not lie in ritual$$$ unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather$$$ perhaps$$$ in the slow clumsy$$$ error-strewn working out of an individual or collective path.

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it$$$ ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

I learned the first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time.

How do you defeat terrorism? Don't be terrorized.

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct$$$ and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

Free societies...are societies in motion$$$ and with motion comes tension$$$ dissent$$$ friction. Free people strike sparks$$$ and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence.

The Prophets accept all agony and trust it. For the water has never feared the fire.

Let's get away from all the clever humans who put words in our mouth. Let's only say what our hearts desire.

Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.