If we had a keen vision of all that

“The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.”     George Eliot

“Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.”     George Eliot

“I do not believe that any writer has ever exposed this bovaryisme, the human will to see things as they are not, more clearly than Shakespeare.”     George Eliot

“There is nothing fantastic or ultradimansional about crab grass… unless you are an sf writer, in which case pretty soon you are viewing crab grass with suspicion. What are it’s real motives? And who sent it here in the first place? It only looks like crab grass. That’s what they want us to think it is. One day the crab grass suit will fall off and their true identity will be revealed. By then the Pentagon will be full of crab grass and it’ll be too late. The crab grass, or what we took to be crab grass, will dictate terms.”     Phillip K. Dick

“For health and the constant enjoyment of life, give me a keen and ever-present sense of humor; it is the next best thing to an abiding faith in providence.”      George Barrell Cheever