Culture Is Public, Because Meaning Is

I Don't Think Things Are Moving Toward An Omega Point; I Think They're Moving Toward More Diversity

I Don't Write Drafts. I Write From The Beginning To The End, And When It's Finished, It's Done

As A Religious Problem, The Problem Of Suffering Is, Paradoxically, Not How To Avoid Suffering But How To Suffer, How To Make Of Physical Pain, Personal Loss, Worldly Defeat, Or The Helpless Contemplation Of Others' Agony Something Bearable, Supportable- Something As We Say, Sufferable.

I'm An Inveterate Fox And Not A Hedgehog, So I Always Think You Should Try Everything

There Is An Indian Story -- At Least I Heard It As An Indian Story -- About An Englishman Who, Having Been Told That The World Rested On A Platform Which Rested On The Back Of An Elephant Which Rested In Turn On The Back Of A Turtle, Asked (perhaps He Was An Ethnographer; It Is The Way They Behave), What Did The Turtle Rest On? Another Turtle. And That Turtle? 'ah, Sahib, After That It Is Turtles All The Way Down