Capitalism sounds good in theory but it just doesn't work.

Homosexuality, like androgyny, might be an instinctive racial response to overpopulation, crowding, and stress. Both flourish when empire reaches its apogee.

For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end. For a man, it is an end in itself.

The best argument for Christianity is the Gregorian chant. Listening to that music, one can believe anything -- while the music lasts.

A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles.

Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.

In the afternoon I watch the clouds drift past the bald peak of Mount Tukuhnikivats. (Someone has to do it.)