This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
" The problem with those who choose received Authority over fact and logic is how they choose which part of Authority to obey. The Bible famously contradicts itself at many points (I have never understood why any Christian would choose the Old Testament over the New), and the Koran can be read as a wonderfully compassionate and humanistic document. Which suggests that the problem of fundamentalism lies not with authority, but with ourselves." - Molly Ivins, fully Mary Tyler "Molly" Ivins
"They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls?" - Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
"It is the divine attribute of the imagination that it is irrepressible, unconfinable; that when the real world is shut out, it can create a world for itself, and with a necromantic power can conjure up glorious shapes and forms, and brilliant visions to make solitude populous, and irradiate the gloom of a dungeon." - Washington Irving