Reality

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

--Philip K. Dick

Separation = Not Safe

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

--Edmund Burke

Kooks

But really, the idea that worrying about the effect of carbon-dioxide emissions on the world's climate makes you some kind of liberal kook is as tired as the image of Mr. Gore as a stiff, humorless speaker, someone to make fun of rather than take seriously.

--A.O. Scott

Everything Secret

Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.

--Lord Acton

Pissed

It is better to be pissed off than pissed on.

--Stephen Joyce

Globalization

If you don't feel conflicted about the effects of globalization, if you don't worry about the many losers from the process, you aren't paying attention.

--Paul Krugman

Bearable Only...

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

--Carl Sagan

Money Can't Buy

You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy.

--Garth Brooks

The Ape

I'd rather be a climbing ape than a falling angel.

--Terry Pratchett

Con Game

To picture God in terms of power is also one of the great bait and switch gimmicks of all time. People within the power hierarchy proclaim that God is the ultimate authority, and then appoint themselves as God's interpreters and enforcers. They are God's humble bullies. It has been one of the most successful con games of all time.

--Rev. Jim Rigby (pastor of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Austin, Texas)

True and False

There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.

--Harold Pinter

Life Delights

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

--William Blake

Little...More

My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.

--Charles Lamb

Imagine If...

Imagine if someone in your office, sitting at a desk across from you, were suddenly blown to bits, splattering you with his or her blood. You wouldn't get over it for the rest of your life. This is what happens daily in Iraq.

--Bob Herbert

I Don't Think

I don't think I was clinically an alcoholic. I've had friends who were, you know, very addicted...and they required hitting bottom and going to AA. I don't think that was my case.

--George W. Bush

Not Alone

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

--Pearl S. Buck

Hope

It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.

--Walter Benjamin

Pleasant Surprise

Serendipity: The pleasant surprise of happening upon a fortunate discovery when you weren't in search of it.

--Henry Walpole (author of The Princess of Serendip)

Essential Virtues

In fact, the mass migration to computers and the Internet in some ways serves as a foil for print, dispensing with its more circumstantial uses and highlighting its most essential virtues.

--Ben Vershbow

Safe But Crowded

The beaten path is the safest, but the traffic's terrible.

--Jeff Taylor

The Light Gets In

There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.

--Leonard Cohen