I have been a lucky man. But someone has to be.

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

A life without tragedy would not be worth living.

Is it possible to grow wiser without knowing it? One hopes so. We all hope so.

We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtues; without courage, the other virtues are useless.

Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed.

Some people write to please, to soothe, to console. Others to provoke, to challenge, to exasperate and infuriate. I've always found the second approach the more pleasing.