It's true: Every time you kill an elk, you're saving some cow's life.

Music begins where words leave off. Music expresses the inexpressible. If there is a Kingdom of Heaven, it lies in music.

But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.

Generally speaking, it's a matter of only mild intellectual interest to me whether the earth goes around the sun or the sun goes around the earth. In fact, I don't care a rat's ass either way.

Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed.

Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful.

What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most.