Carbon Footprint

"Carbon footprint" is to your physical being what "soul" is to your spiritual being.

--Verlyn Klinkenborg

Misty Morning

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

--Ancient proverb

Stories Dying

I worry about stories dying, replaced by stuff. Content for platforms does not a story make. Today, you arrive anywhere and surf the Net. Being "always on" is being always off, to something.

--Roger Cohen

Getting Old

Getting old is not for sissies.

--Bette Davis

He Needs Money

Religion easily--has the best bullshit story of all time. Think about it. Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man...living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money.

--George Carlin

Way Station

Happiness is a way station between too little and too much.

--Channing Pollack

Internal Debate

I had an internal debate. Because I knew that the A.P. was going to take a picture, and they were trying to portray it like Dukakis wearing that tank helmet. But I wanted to make sure that the children who saw that picture knew that even the Democratic nominee for president wears a helmet when he goes biking.

--Barack Obama

Pursuit of Pleasure

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

--William Channin

Escape

The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.

--Alan Saporta

Blow It Out

If ya ain't got it in ya, ya can't blow it out.

--Louis Armstrong

A Whim

Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while.

--Anonymous

The Future

There are two classes of people who tell what is going to happen in the future: those who don't know and those who don't know they don't know.

--John Kenneth Galbraith

Basis for Running

We are a great country, an unselfish country, and a compassionate country, and I intend to make that my basis for running over the period of the next few months.

--Robert F. Kennedy (June 1968)

To The End

We pledged to support her to the end. Our problem is not being able to determine when the hell the end is.

--Rep. Charles B. Rangel

It's About Empathy

People are always asking actors, "How are you like this character?" But that's not what acting's about. It's not about identification. It's about empathy for people, for the human condition.

--Julianne Moore

Three Opinions

There are three opinions you can't voice in America without being dismissed as a crackpot, if not worse: The '60s experiments in consciousness expansion were basically a good thing; organized religion is oppressive; children and teen-agers have a right to enjoy their sexuality.

--Ellen Willis

The Light

I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being.

--Hafiz