James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end.

The New Age orgy: The flesh was willing but the spirit's weak.

The best argument for Christianity is the Gregorian chant. Listening to that music, one can believe anything -- while the music lasts.

The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.

There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.

Only a fool is astonished by the foolishness of mankind.

Night and day the river flows. If time is the mind of space, the River is the soul of the desert. Brave boatmen come, they go, they die, the voyage flows on forever. We are all canyoneers. We are all passengers on this little mossy ship, this delicate dory sailing round the sun that humans call the earth. Joy, shipmates, joy.