Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper.

A shelf of classics for our young adults: Tolkien, Hesse, Casteneda, Kerouac, Salinger, Tom Robbins, and _The Last Whole Earth Catalog_.

If, as some say, evil lies in the hearts and not the institutions of men, then there's hardly a distinction worth making between, say, Hitler's Germany and Rebecca's Sunnybrook Farm.

As Mark Twain said, 'I love Wagner -- if only they'd cut out all that damned singing!'

Wealth should come like manna from heaven, unearned and uncalled for. Money should be like grace -- a gift. It is not worth sweating and scheming for.

Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it.

Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.