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

The axiom of conditioned repetition, like the binomial theorem, is nothing but a piece of insolence.

We are kindred all of us, killer and victim, predator and prey, me and the sly coyote, the soaring buzzard, the elegant gopher snake, and trembling cottontail, the foul worms that feed on our entrails; all of them, all of us. Long live diversity, long live the earth!

Not all questions can be answered.

What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most.

Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.

Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony.