No man likes to be smoked out of his hole in February.

I choose to listen to the river for a while, thinking river thoughts, before joining the night and the stars.

The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.

I have been a lucky man. But someone has to be.

The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war.

All power rests on hierarchy: An army is nothing but a well-organized lynch mob.

How did Haydn and Mozart produce such vast quantities of formally perfect art? They worked from a perfect formula. In music, Beethoven was the Great Emancipator.