Books are like eggs -- best when fresh.

Nature, like Maimonides said, is mainly a good place to throw beer cans on Sunday afternoons.

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

Why administrators are respected and schoolteachers are not: An administrator is paid a lot for doing very little, while a teacher is paid very little for doing a lot.

A genius is always on duty; even his dreams are tax deductible.

Among politicians and businessmen, *Pragmatism* is the current term for 'To hell with our children.'

Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.