"'I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.'" - William Faulkner

I hope so... We'll see.

"The guilty people are not only the Vulcans [in the Bush administration] but those Americans who in the November election endorsed the war.

They are also responsible for the Iraqi deaths, especially the men who join the police or the army because they need the money to support their families -- their jobs eaten up in the maw of the American ''liberation.'' Iraqi deaths don't trouble many Americans. Their attitude is not unlike the e-mail writer who said he rejoices every time a Muslim kills another Muslim. ''Let Allah sort them out.''

This time of the year we celebrate ''peace on Earth to men of good will.'' Americans must face the fact that they can no longer claim to be men and women of good will, not as long as they support an unnecessary, foolish, ill-conceived, badly executed and, finally, unwinnable war."

- Father Andrew Greeley, columnist and novelist

"I wish you both forgiveness, because
the closer we get the more we're doomed
to let each other down a dozen or a hundred times a day,
and unless those disappointments can be washed away,
they accumulate like barnacles on a hull,
until any careless contact draws blood...
So work those things out as they happen,
or just let them go. Let there be no
scorekeeping, no lifetime won-lost record."

- "A Wedding Toast to Heather and John" by Jack McCarthy

"For Social Security is a government program that works, a demonstration that a modest amount of taxing and spending can make people's lives better and more secure. And that's why the right wants to destroy it. " - P. Krugman - 12/7/2004