Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.
Great art is never perfect; perfect art is never great.
In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.
One day in Dipstick, Nebraska, or Landfill, Oklahoma, is worth more to me than an eternity in Dante's plastic Paradiso, or Yeats's gold-plated Byzantium.
We spend more time working for our labor-saving machines than they do working for us.
Art, science, philosophy, religion -- each offers at best only a crude simplification of actual living experience.