Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it.

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.

As Mark Twain said, 'I love Wagner -- if only they'd cut out all that damned singing!'

I hate intellectual discussion. When I hear the words 'phenomenology' or 'structuralism', I reach for my buck knife.

No man likes to be smoked out of his hole in February.

A shelf of classics for our young adults: Tolkien, Hesse, Casteneda, Kerouac, Salinger, Tom Robbins, and _The Last Whole Earth Catalog_.

Poor Dimitri Shostakovich: In the Soviet Union, he was condemned as being too radical; in the West, for being too conservative. He could please no one but the musical public. He revenged himself on both by writing a short piece called 'March of the Soviet Police.'