“I believe that we don't need to worry about what happens after this life, as long as we do our duty here—to love and to serve.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 197.

"A Poem of Difficult Hope".
What Are People For? (1990)

Sexuality
Song lyrics, Controversy (1981)

Love Will Conquer All, co-written with Greg Phillinganes and Cynthia Weil.
Song lyrics, Dancing on the Ceiling (1986)

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 233.

John Perry Barlow 2.0 (2004)
Context: It’s a perfect set of circumstances to give us the time Yeats foretold, with the best having lost all conviction and the worst full of passionate intensity. I’m an optimist. In order to be libertarian, you have to be an optimist. You have to have a benign view of human nature, to believe that human beings left to their own devices are basically good. But I’m not so sure about human institutions, and I think the real point of argument here is whether or not large corporations are human institutions or some other entity we need to be thinking about curtailing. Most libertarians are worried about government but not worried about business. I think we need to be worrying about business in exactly the same way we are worrying about government.

Nous désirons passionnément qu'il y ait une autre vie où nous serions pareils à ce que nous sommes ici-bas. Mais nous ne réfléchissons pas que, même sans attendre cette autre vie, dans celle-ci, au bout de quelques années, nous sommes infidèles à ce que nous avons été, à ce que nous voulions rester immortellement.
Pt. II, Ch. 2
In Search of Lost Time, Remembrance of Things Past (1913-1927), Vol. IV: Cities of the Plain (1921-1922)

Responding to a TV reporter's question about the murder rate http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/08/nagin_calls_nos_dangerous_imag.html (August 2007)
2007