Simplicity is always a virtue.

When riding my old Harley a ninety per at midnight down the Via Roma in Naples, I kept one consolation firmly in mind: If anything goes wrong, I'll never have time to regret it.

Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy.

Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.

The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.

Simplicity is always a virtue. One kid on a riverbank working out a Stephen Foster tune on his new harmonica heard from the correct esthetic distance projects more magic and power than the entire Vienna Philharmonic and Chorus laboring (once again) through the Mozart Requiem or Bach's B Minor Mass.

Girls, like flowers, bloom but once. But once is enough.