"If 18,000 gods have been invented then it is likely that god 18,001 is also invented."

“Privileged groups, like everyone else, want to think well of themselves and to believe that they are acting generously and justly.”

Source : Joanna Russ (1983). “How to Suppress Women's Writing”, p.18, University of Texas Press

“It's a losing proposition, but one you can't refuse. It's the politics of contraband, it's the smuggler's blues.”

Source : Song: Smuggler's Blues

“It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.”

“If I wake up during a dream I can usually go back to sleep and finish the story.”

“Republicans let this happen over and over, and there is never anyone to stick up for them. They spend too much time defending themselves.”

“Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.”

Source : "Interview with Barry Commoner" by Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

“In a world that has ceased to believe in sin, the artist is responsible for the preaching.”

“I've got three kids. I worry about them but the gospel freed me and freed my wife. We are not trying to make our kids think that we're super spiritual or we've got it all together. They see mom and dad being real people. What they hear dad talking about at home is not different from what they see from dad [at church]. That won't guarantee that they'll avoid the whole PK, MK thing. But we are hopefully not contributing to what normally produces that crisis, which is pretending.”