How did Haydn and Mozart produce such vast quantities of formally perfect art? They worked from a perfect formula. In music, Beethoven was the Great Emancipator.

Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today.

I am an enemy of the State. But isn't everyone?

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.

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?

The ever-rising cost of living: Someday soon, the corporate technicians will be locking meters on our noses and charging us a royalty on the air we breathe.

Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.