The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while.

Every man should be his own guru; every woman her own gurette.

Nature, like Maimonides said, is mainly a good place to throw beer cans on Sunday afternoons.

A mother's sorrow is more true, honorable, and beautiful than the detachment of the sage.

Epitaphs for a gravestone: 'Please: no hooliganism'; or 'Es prohibe se hace agua aqui'; or 'No comment'.

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.

Of all the featherless beasts, only man, chained by his self-imposed slavery to the clock, denies the elemental fire and proceeds as best he can about his business, suffering quietly, martyr to his madness. Much to learn.