Simplicity is always a virtue. One kid on a riverbank working out a Stephen Foster tune on his new harmonica heard from the correct esthetic distance projects more magic and power than the entire Vienna Philharmonic and Chorus laboring (once again) through the Mozart Requiem or Bach's B Minor Mass.

All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if only for an hour.

If the end does not justify the means - what can?

God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.

Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.

What's the difference between the Lone Ranger and God? There really is a Lone Ranger.

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?