Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed.

A drink a day keeps the shrink away.

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

Metaphysics is a cobweb that the mind weaves around things.

No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as that Glen Canyon Dam at Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County.

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.

Whenever I read _Time_ or _Newsweek_ or such magazines, I wash my hands afterward. But how to wash off the small but odious stain such reading leaves on the mind?