The world is older and bigger than we are. This is a hard truth for some folks to swallow.

I’m tired of doing what I don’t want to do to live the way I don’t want to live.

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.

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

Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.

The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.

Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get them read and talked about.