44 Quotes by Fred Kaplan

As became a young sinner, Sam [Mark Twain] had a special interest in Satan. He asked his Sunday school teacher questions about Eve in the garden, wondering "if he had ever heard of another woman who, being approached by a serpent, would not excuse herself and break for the nearest timber." Twain recalled, "He did not answer my question, but rebuked me for inquiring into matters above my age and comprehension.

The true poet is of the hero type, soaring above sensual gratification and rational formulas. The language of poetry has the potential for generating cosmic visions and the optimism of a regenerative belief system.

The New START accord cuts the strategic nuclear arsenals on each side to 1,550 warheads. Can any of its critics make a case that our security would be imperiled if, the very next day, Obama and Medvedev made moves to take the levels down to 1,000—then to 500?If so, come show us the math. If not, it may be time to stop making arms control so politically complicated—time to stop letting arms control get in the way of disarmament.

Success in bureaucratic politics comes when those in charge claim a once-unpopular idea as their own

That can send the condition into a wild state of flare-up.

The real question, which will be answered in the next couple of months, is whether the combatants in this phase of the Iraqi warthe Sunnis vs. the Shiites, mainlyare ready to agree on a framework.

What happens in FOP is children continue to make new pieces of the skeleton after birth, ... The signal is not just 'make more bone.'

Even if the answer to FOP is only for FOP, it wouldn't in any way dissuade me from working on it, ... I would hope we can make a difference for these kids (and find) medications, treatment or therapy that would enable them to prevent a joint from turning into bone or restore movement to some joint already frozen.

You can't keep a child in a glass box,