The new national campfire - radio.

I was raised by and have raised people who regard telling one story when two would do as a sign someone is not really trying.

The whole town looks as if it had been left out in the rain too long and by mistake.

There are two types of change: the change we choose and the change that chooses us.

Like Nietzsche, I believe that without music, life would be a mistake. Nothing but silence says it better.

If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?

We plant a tree that won't be big enough to climb until we're too old to climb trees, we write constitutions to protect the rights of people who won't be born for another hundred years and may not be worth the trouble anyway, and we try to take care of our sick, though we all suffer from a disease for which there is no cure and no hope for one. We will not last and we know we will not - and still we write, carve, build, paint and plant to last. We are, it seems to me, very, very brave.