So I write mainly for the fun of it, the hell of it, the duty of it. I enjoy writing and will probably be a scribbler on my dying day, sprawled on some stony trail halfway between two dry waterholes.

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

A drink a day keeps the shrink away.

The rifle and handgun are 'equalizers' -- the weapons of a democracy. Tanks and bombers represent dictatorship.

It is the difference between men and women, not the sameness, that creates the tension and the delight.

The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.

Music begins where words leave off. Music expresses the inexpressible. If there is a Kingdom of Heaven, it lies in music.