A Human Being Can Be

Fiction And Essays Can Create Empathy For The Theoretical Stranger.

I Could Never Work Out Whether We Were To View Religion As A Life-insurance Policy Or A Life Sentence.

We Must Surely Appear To The World As Exactly What We Are: A Nation That Organizes Its Economy Around Consuming Twice As Much Oil As It Produces, And Around The Profligate Wastefulness Of The Wars And Campaigns Required To Defend Such Consumption. In Recent Years We Have Defined Our National Interest Largely In Terms Of The Oil Fields And Pipelines We Need To Procure Fuel.

How Is It Right To Slip Free Of An Old Skin And Walk Away From The Scene Of The Crime? We Came, We Saw, We Took Away And We Left Behind, We Must Be Allowed Our Anguish And Our Regrets.

If You Never Stepped On Anybody's Toes, You Never Been For A Walk.