Music is a savage art, a measured madness.

In history-as-politics, the 'future' is that vacuum in time waiting to be filled with the antics of statesmen.

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

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

Man's deliberate destruction of his own habitat -- planet Earth -- could serve as a mighty theme for a mighty book worthy of a modern Melville or Tolstoy. But our best fictioneers confine themselves to domestic drama -- soap opera with literary trimmings.

There's another disadvantage to the use of the flashlight: like many other mechanical gadgets it tends to separate a man from the world around him. If I switch it on my eyes adapt to it and I can see only the small pool of light it makes in front of me; I am isolated. Leaving the flashlight in my pocket where it belongs, I remain a part of the environment I walk through and my vision though limited has no sharp or definite boundary.

Man was created to complete the horse.