What did Jesus say to the headwaiter at the Last Supper? 'Separate checks, please.'

All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?

I stand for what I stand on.

My Aunt Ida at age eighty-three: 'Yeah,' she said, 'I'll be dead pretty soon. And frankly, I don't give a damn.'

My cousin Elroy spent seven years as an IBM taper staring at THINK signs on the walls before he finally got a good idea: He quit.

Henry James was our master of periphrasis -- the fine art of saying as little as possible in the greatest number of words.

The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see.