Music endures and ages far better than books. Books, made of words, are unavoidably attached to ideas, events, conflict, and history, but music has the power to transcend time. At least for a time. Palestrina sounds as fresh today as he did in 1555, but Dante, only three centuries older, already smells of the archaic, the medieval, the catacombs.

It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive.

The axiom of conditioned repetition, like the binomial theorem, is nothing but a piece of insolence.

Only a fool is astonished by the foolishness of mankind.

This is the most beautiful place on Earth. There are many such places. Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind the image of the ideal place, the right place, the one true home, known or unknown, actual or visionary.

A rancher is a farmer who farms the public lands with a herd of four-legged lawn mowers.

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.