Quotes of the day

"Community is the best we can hope for, and community for most people means touch: the touch of your hand against the other's hand, the job done together, the sledge hauled together, the dance danced together, the child conceived together."

and

"An ideology is valuable only insofar as it is used to intensify clarity and honesty of thought and feeling."

--Ursula K. Le Guin (in the essay collection "The Language of the Night")