I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud.

No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful.

If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice.

We could have saved the earth, but we were too damned cheap.

Everybody knows that the dumbest people in any American university are in the education department, and English after that.

Literature is the only art in which the audience performs the score.

Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.