A man is not aware of his virtues (if any). Nevertheless, one hopes that they exist.

The world of employer and employee, like that of master and slave, debases both.

War: First day in the U.S. Army, the government placed a Bible in my left hand, a bayonet in the other.

Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure.

Music endures and ages far better than books. Books, made of words, are unavoidably attached to ideas, events, conflict, and history, but music has the power to transcend time. At least for a time. Palestrina sounds as fresh today as he did in 1555, but Dante, only three centuries older, already smells of the archaic, the medieval, the catacombs.

There are two kinds of people I cannot abide: bigots and any well-organized ethnic group.

How to Overthrow the System: brew your own beer; kick in your Tee Vee; kill your own beef; build your own cabin and piss off the front porch whenever you bloody well feel like it.