In all of nature, there is no sound more pleasing than that of a hungry animal at its feed. Unless you are the food.

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

If a man’s imagination were not so weak, so easily tired, if his capacity for wonder not so limited, he would abandon forever such fantasies of the supernal. He would learn to perceive in water, leaves and silence more than sufficient of the absolute and marvelous, more than enough to console him for the loss of the ancient dream.

We should restore the practice of dueling. It might improve manners around here.

If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one ordinary human child.

And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.

Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?