I have scarcely touched the sky and I am made of it. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root… – Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854

The answer to poverty is not charity, the solution to abortion is not laws, the key to saving the environment is not recycling. As Thoreau so wisely noted, we must strike at the root, not hack at the branches. – Terri Guillemets, “Comfort is not always the best medicine,” 1995

A sodomite got very excited looking at a zoology text. Does this make it pornography? – Stanislaw J. Lec