Life Without Music Would Be

Civilization, Like An Airplane In Flight, Survives Only As It Keeps Going Forward.

Suicide: Don't Knock It If You Ain't Tried It.

Edmund Wilson Was Our Greatest American Literary Critic Because He Was More Than A Literary Critic: He Was A Fearless, Even Radical Judge Of The Society He Lived In. (see, For Example, _a Piece Of My Mind_; _the Cold War And The Income Tax_; The Introduction To _patriotic Gore_.) Our Conventional Critics Cannot Forgive Him For Those Scandalous Lapses In Good Taste.

If The End Does Not Justify The Means - What Can?

The Absurd Vanity Of Metaphysicians Who Like To Imagine That They Create The World By Thinking About It.