Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed.
We live in a society in which it is normal to be sick; and sick to be abnormal.
Of all bores, the worst is the sparkling bore.
A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.
The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.
I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.