"He's right: They have to put madmen with madmen."

-- Alexandre Dumas

“I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up.”
“I have no fear of God, and yet fear keeps me awake at night,fear of the devil. And if I believe in the devil, I must believe in God. And if evil is abhorrent to me, I must be a saint. Henry, save me from beatification, from the horrors of static perfection. Precipitate me into the inferno.”
“Free societies are societies in which the right of dissent is protected.”
“The finest people, as people go, cannot help but betray a fair portion of fear and insecurity, even full-blown panic.”
“Of all mushrooms commonly consumed, oyster mushrooms in the genus Pleurotus stand out as exceptional allies for improving human and environmental health. These mushrooms enjoy a terrific reputation as the easiest to cultivate, richly nutritious and medicinally supportive.”

Source : "The Mighty Oyster Mushroom: The Workhorse of Gourmet Fungi" by Paul Stamets, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 25, 2013.
“Institutions are essential in order to preserve the achievement of the past, but the original creative impulse in every age comes from the amateur, the rebel, the breaker of idols.”

Source : Robert Gordis (1960). “A Faith for Moderns”
“I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul.”

Source : Life Interview, January 1991.
“The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.”

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