"Once the call of God comes to you, start going and never stop."

-- Oswald Chambers

“A new fascism promises security from the terror of crime. All that is required is that we take away the criminals' rights - which, of course, are our own. Out of our desperation and fear we begin to feel a sense of security from the new totalitarian state.”

Source : Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.408, Macmillan
“My fictional worlds were those of a fabulist, of an intellectual fantasist. I was the lawgiver, and the countries and inhabitants of my imagination were answerable to me. If I wished for a man to levitate; to enter another's story by rowboat or by intoning a sentence or by performing a shadow-puppet play; if I wanted him to become a swarm of intelligent elementary particles and enter the Internet and travel into the past and far into the future, it was so.”
“The United States government can indict you on something, and now you've got to prove your innocence. And that's not the Constitution of the United States.”
“Traditionally, the way deficits have been cut is you hold expenditures more or less constant in real dollars and then let growth come in to fill it up.”

Source : "POLITICO Interview: Gov. Bredesen". Interview with Alexander Burns, www.politico.com. February 24, 2009.
“Connecting with people is not hard. I love the interaction and the feedback after shows. It does take some time, but the fans appreciate it which makes it worth it.”
“I will tell you one thing that will make you rich for life. There are two struggles: an Inner-world struggle and an Outer-world struggle...you must make an intentional contact between these two worlds; then you can crystallize data for the Third World, the World of the Soul.”
“I also believe I met William Gaddis once. He did not look Italian.”

Source : David Markson (1995). “Wittgenstein's mistress”, Dalkey Archive Pr
“Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.”

Source : William Sloane Coffin (2011). “The Heart Is a Little to the Left: Essays on Public Morality”, p.83, UPNE

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