The church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. And each would have been horrified to think it was a different facet of the same thing. But surely they were both intended to accomplish the same thing: the singing, the devotion, the poetry of the churches took a man out of his bleakness for a time, and so did the brothels.

Guys like us got nothing to look ahead to

You can boast about anything if it's all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.

A wife is like a children's movie; always under-appreciated and without either, life would be incomplete.

I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.