Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.

A house built on greed cannot long endure.

Salome had but seven veils; the artist has a thousand.

Some lives are tragic, some ridiculous. Most are both at once.

To the question: Wilderness, who needs it? Doc would say: Because we like the taste of freedom, comrades. Because we like the smell of danger. But, thought Hayduke, what about the smell of fear, Dad?

Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.

Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.