The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life. - Wendell Berry

Much of the obscurity of our effort so far against terrorism originates in the now official idea that the enemy is evil and that we are (therefore) good, which is the precise mirror image of the official idea of the terrorists.

The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it or to escape what is bad in it but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.

We’ve all got to go through enough to kill us.