The greater your dreams, the more terrible your nightmares.

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

In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal.

Nobody has so many friends that he can afford to lose one.

Let the people walk. Or ride horses, bicycles, mules, wild pigs-anything-but keep the automobiles and the motorcycles and all their motorized relatives out. We have agreed not to drive our automobiles into cathedrals, concert halls, art museums, legislative assemblies, private bedrooms and other sanctums of our culture; we should treat our national parks with the same deference, for they, too, are holy places.

A mother's sorrow is more true, honorable, and beautiful than the detachment of the sage.

The world is full of burled and gnarly knobs on which you can hang a metaphysical system. If you must.