Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless. - Edward Abbey

If a man's imagination were not so weak, so easily tired, if his capacity for wonder not so limited, he would abandon forever such fantasies of the supernal. He would learn to perceive in water, leaves and silence more than sufficient of the absolute and marvelous, more than enough to console him for the loss of the ancient dreams.

Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.

Music clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart.