Music is a savage art, a measured madness.

Every moment is precious. And precarious.

The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses.

Women: We cannot love them all. But we must try.

If people persist in trespassing upon the grizzlies' territory, we must accept the fact that the grizzlies, from time to time, will harvest a few trespassers.

In the world of words, one of my best-loved tribes is the diatribe.

A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.