An empty man is full of himself.

The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while.

The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong; it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.

England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.

The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.

It seems clear at last that our love for the natural world-Nature-is the only means by which we can requite God's obvious love for it.

We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism -- a Mongoloid metaphysic.