Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.

The author: an imaginary person who writes real books.

Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called development?

Music endures and ages far better than books. Books, made of words, are unavoidably attached to ideas, events, conflict, and history, but music has the power to transcend time. At least for a time. Palestrina sounds as fresh today as he did in 1555, but Dante, only three centuries older, already smells of the archaic, the medieval, the catacombs.

There is a fine art to making enemies and it requires diligent cultivation. It's not as easy as it looks.

The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority reluctant to air in public their views on anything controversial. ... Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.

My computer tells me that in twenty-five years there will be no more computers.