He ate a pear. It was a hard one. It fought back against his grinding teeth. It snapped in juicy protest.

Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough times of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference.

Man is vile, and man makes nothing worth making, knows nothing worth knowing.

Tis better to have love and lust Than to let our apparatus rust.

We were all gun nuts and they were called varmints, crows were, because they ate grain and so did we.

One thing I hate about school committees today is that they cut arts programs out of the curriculum because they say the arts aren't a way to make a living.