Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed.

Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.

A genius is always on duty; even his dreams are tax deductible.

All power rests on hierarchy: An army is nothing but a well-organized lynch mob.

Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?

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

Alaska's chief attractions are: (a) its small and insignificant human population, thanks to the miserable climate; and (b) its large and magnificent wildlife population, thanks to (a). Both of these attractions are being rapidly diminished, however, by (c) the Law of Growth and Space-Age Sleaze.