I have read a great deal of economic theory for over 50 years now, but have found only one economic "law" to which I can find NO exceptions: Where the State prevents a free market, by banning any form of goods or services, consumer demand will create a black market for those goods or services, at vastly higher prices. Can YOU think of a single exception to this law?

Editors always amputate the brain first and preserve a good-looking corpse.

I read everything, including the labels on canned food. I'm a hopeless print addict, a condition alleviated only by daily meditation which breaks the linear-Aristotelian trance. National Lampoon, Scientific American are what I read most obsessively.

Reality is what you can get away with.

Hippies generally aren't busy with anything except feeling sorry for themselves.

Only the madman is absolutely sure.

The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.