Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge. Probably tertiary.

What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.

One can imagine a sane, healthy, cheerful human society based on no more than the principles of common sense, as validated each day by work, play, and living experience. But this remains the most utopian and fantastic of ideals.

Though I've lived in the rural West most of my life, I never once fell in love with a horse. Not once. Neither end.

What is truth? I don't know and I'm sorry I brought it up.

There are two kinds of people I cannot abide: bigots and any well-organized ethnic group.

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