Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.

The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never even went to college.

If you feel that you're not ready to die, never fear; nature will give you complete and adequate assistance when the time comes.

We know this apodictic rock beneath our feet. That dogmatic sun above our heads. The world of dreams, the agony of love and the foresight of death. That is all we know. And all we need to know? Challenge that statement.

Music begins where words leave off. Music expresses the inexpressible. If there is a Kingdom of Heaven, it lies in music.

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

There are circumstances in which suicide presents a viable option; a workable alternative; the only sensible solution.