Defiance Is Beautiful. The Defiance

Poor Dimitri Shostakovich: In The Soviet Union, He Was Condemned As Being Too Radical; In The West, For Being Too Conservative. He Could Please No One But The Musical Public. He Revenged Himself On Both By Writing A Short Piece Called 'march Of The Soviet Police.'

There Is Science, Logic, Reason; There Is Thought Verified By Experience. And Then There Is California.

Desire, Said The Buddha, Is The Cause Of Suffering. But Without Desire, What Delight?

If Industrial Man Continues To Multiply His Numbers And Expand His Operations He Will Succeed In His Apparent Intention, To Seal Himself Off From The Natural And Isolate Himself Within A Synthetic Prison Of His Own Making.

Poetry -- Even Bad Poetry -- May Be Our Final Hope.