You can make more friends in a month by being interested in them than in ten years by trying to get them interested in you. We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance. It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small. The CD is dedicated to our dog Nell, who passed away last year. Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals. If I could be in any band, I think it would have to be the Beatles. That would have been a lot of fun. You're not sick you're just in love. Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments. People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy. The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others. Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due. How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them. In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility. I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies. Let the teachers teach English and I will teach baseball. There is a lot of people in the United States who say isn't, and they ain't eating. My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint. Patients reported that their psychedelic sessions were an invaluable experiential training for dying. Justifying faith is not a naked assent to the truths of the gospel. The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. Why join the navy if you can be a pirate? I thought what the military was doing was unconstitutional. We are very near the final climactic events that end with the Second Coming of Christ. To be knocked out doesn't mean what it seems. A boxer does not have to get up. In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee - or laugh. I think the people who would be the least interested in my work would be people who read lots of comic books. Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before. In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued. I've always wanted to do this, so it really is a dream come true. Ideally, I'd like every issue to include a diverse group of stories that meet the qualifications sketched above, but covering a wide range of specific matter and flavour. I don't say tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.