Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.

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

Paradise for a happy man lies in his own good nature.

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.

Freedom begins between the ears.

Humility is a virtue when you have no other.

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.