Quantum mechanics provides us with an approximate, plausible, conjectural explanation of what actually is, or was, or may be taking place inside a cyclotron during a dark night in February.

Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.

Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our antimaterialist, otherworldly, New Age, spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu, and seaweed slime.

There comes a point, in literary objectivity, when the author's self- effacement is hard to distinguish from moral cowardice.

The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.

It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave.

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