My cousin Elroy spent seven years as an IBM taper staring at THINK signs on the walls before he finally got a good idea: He quit.

One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind of a role and place in the community. I never felt that living in a city - as I once did for a couple of years.

Roosters: The cry of the male chicken is the most barbaric yawp in all of nature.

Mental degeneracy may be caused by lead poisoning. Or by a poor dip in the gene pool.

It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave.

The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by violence when convenient.

Romanticism was more than merely an alternative to a sterile classicism; romanticism made possible, especially in art, a great expansion of the human consciousness.