Figuring

policy change and cultural change are hardly the same thing, existing on different time scales.

There’s a deal to be learned in a midnight walk When you take it all alone. If a gentleman’s with you, it’s talk, talk, talk. You’ve no eyes and mind of your own.

of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment. Betelgeuse

To be a revolutionary is to be in possession of an imagination capable of leaping across the frontier of the familiar to envision a new order in which what is gained eclipses the ill-serving comforts of what is lost.

cessation is the ultimate nature of all things, and that any dynamism, wherever in time it may fall, however briefly, is cause for celebration.

the inhabitants of Earth would have the insight and integrity to question their own conviction of centrality.

governed by eternal forces deaf to human words—fundamental

meaning is not what we find, but what we create with the lives we live

We are so anxious to classify and categorize, both nature and human nature. It is a beautiful impulse—to contain the infinite in the finite, to wrest order from the chaos, to construct a foothold so we may climb toward higher truth. It is also a limiting one, for in naming things we often come to mistake the names for the things themselves.