Life is hard? True - but let's love it anyhow, though it breaks every bone in our bodies.

Simplicity is always a virtue. One kid on a riverbank working out a Stephen Foster tune on his new harmonica heard from the correct esthetic distance projects more magic and power than the entire Vienna Philharmonic and Chorus laboring (once again) through the Mozart Requiem or Bach's B Minor Mass.

This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.

The rifle and handgun are 'equalizers' -- the weapons of a democracy. Tanks and bombers represent dictatorship.

If the end does not justify the means - what can?

The basic science is not physics or mathematics but biology -- the study of life. We must learn to think both logically and bio-logically.

To die alone, on rock under sun at the brink of the unknown, like a wolf, like a great bird, seems to me very good fortune indeed.