Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.

In the end, for all our differences and conflicts, most women and men share the same food, work, shelter, bed, life, joy, anguish, and fate. We need each other.

Art, science, philosophy, religion -- each offers at best only a crude simplification of actual living experience.

New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive anywhere, why live in New York?

A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.

The Latino military fare badly when they stumble into war with the gringos. But in the torture, murder, and massacre of their own people, they have always performed with brilliance and elan.

Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed.