Books are like eggs -- best when fresh.

Every important change in our society, for the good, at least, has taken place because of popular pressure-pressure from below, from the great mass of people.

Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?

Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper.

It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy.

Some lives are tragic, some ridiculous. Most are both at once.

Places: a cold, bleak, lonely day on the rim at Muley Point, Utah. And the heart-cracking loveliness of the blood-smeared, bitter, incomprehensible slaughterhouse of a world.