Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our antimaterialist, otherworldly, New Age, spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu, and seaweed slime.

Concrete is heavy; iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.

What ideal, immutable Platonic cloud could equal the beauty and perfection of any ordinary everyday cloud floating over, say, Tuba City, Arizona, on a hot day in June?

I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.

A house built on greed cannot long endure.

Suicide: Don't knock it if you ain't tried it.

Among politicians and businessmen, *Pragmatism* is the current term for 'To hell with our children.'