The longest journey begins with a single step, not with the turn of an ignition key. That’s the best thing about walking, the journey itself. It doesn’t much matter whether you get where you’re going or not. You’ll get there anyway. Every good hike brings you eventually back home. Right where you started.

Life without music would be an intolerable insult.

When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.

Great art is never perfect; perfect art is never great.

Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.

Too many American authors have a servile streak where their backbone should be. Where's our latest Nobel laureate? More than likely you'll find him in the Rose Garden kissing the First Lady's foot.

Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.