Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.

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

Why administrators are respected and schoolteachers are not: An administrator is paid a lot for doing very little, while a teacher is paid very little for doing a lot.

Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called development?

Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.

The Latino military fare badly when they stumble into war with the gringos. But in the torture, murder, and massacre of their own people, they have always performed with brilliance and elan.

Night and day the river flows. If time is the mind of space, the River is the soul of the desert. Brave boatmen come, they go, they die, the voyage flows on forever. We are all canyoneers. We are all passengers on this little mossy ship, this delicate dory sailing round the sun that humans call the earth. Joy, shipmates, joy.