There Is More In A Human Life

Mediocrity Is No Answer To Violence. In Fact, It Probably Invites Violence. At Least The Mediocre And The Violent Appear Together As In The Old Western Movies - The Ruffian Outlaw Band Shooting Up Main Street And The Little White Church With The Little White Schoolteacher Wringing Her Hands. To Cool Violence You Need Rhythm, Humor, Tempering; You Need Dance And Rhetoric. Not Therapeutic Understanding.

Suppose That Throughout Your Childhood You Were Good With Numbers. Other Kids Used To Copy Your Homework. You Figured Store Discounts Faster Than Your Parents. People Came To You For Help With Such Things. So You Took Accounting And Eventually Became A Tax Auditor For The Irs. What An Embarrassing Job, Right? You Feel You Should Be Writing Poetry Or Doing Aviation Mechanics Or Whatever. But Then You Realize That Tax Collecting Can Be A Calling Too.

The Transfiguration Of Matter Occurs Through Wonder.

I've Found That Contemporary Psychology Enrages Me With Its Simplistic Ideas Of Human Life, And Also Its Emptiness.

We Dull Our Lives By The Way We Conceive Them.