Apuleius married a rich widow, then wrote _The Golden Ass_.

A shelf of classics for our young adults: Tolkien, Hesse, Casteneda, Kerouac, Salinger, Tom Robbins, and _The Last Whole Earth Catalog_.

The world is full of burled and gnarly knobs on which you can hang a metaphysical system. If you must.

It's true: Every time you kill an elk, you're saving some cow's life.

The author: an imaginary person who writes real books.

Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?

Generally speaking, it's a matter of only mild intellectual interest to me whether the earth goes around the sun or the sun goes around the earth. In fact, I don't care a rat's ass either way.