In a world flailing about in a death through and throat, do not worry, show up early, drink tea, and stare at the leaves.

How do you beat the system? Just don't let it beat you and aim high.

The world is more than corrupt if every aspect is based on greed.

It turns out the physics department is like a golf club, for wingnuts.

It has been almost impossible to be so generous in a world that can be so cruel and demanding.

People sometimes act like I, the little guy should not have raised myself so often, and so well. Then I wonder if this is America, where people are allowed to dream.

I believe that our "Progess in the last fifteen years has been failed progress, which is a dangerous thing.

Who is my muse? I don't know. But it's a female muse.

Am I glad I left the democrats? Yes, I don't think I ever really was a democrat, more like a centrist fence sitting.

Death is a very good teacher.

Lately I have considered a form of Christianity, and I am also Jewish. By religion though my whole life has been more Christian than Jewish in my general beliefs. I was raised in a secular Jewish home. Given an opportunity to explore religion brought me to a church as my first encounter. Later I would check out a synogogue, and enjoy that also. But from the first experience my roots and readings have been more or less Christian.