At the end of any really long tour you need to get your head in order.
There must be engagement: there must be protest.
It began in images and it ended in symbolism.
We remake the world through our technologies, and these in turn remake and extend us, in ever spiraling lattices of complexity. McLuhan uncannily foresaw the future, where electronic technology would shape and expand cultures and societies into a global membrane of communications.
Each voice carries a portion of value, no matter how unpalatable or distasteful that voice may be: no one person, government, ideology, transnational, or religious institution can own and dominate the whole.
Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.
There is, it seems, an unbridgeable chasm between the concerns of a Sri Aurobindo and a Pat Robertson.
Floating in a lake, lying in a hammock, playing a bit of Scrabble. . . that's what I'm in need of.
Before beginning an activity always first empty yourself of thoughts regarding what you are about to do.
The young remember most deeply. . . . When we are old and failing, it is the memories of childhood which can be summoned most clearly.
My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men.