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"Simplicity is always a virtue. One kid on a riverbank working out a Stephen Foster tune on his new harmonica heard from the correct esthetic distance projects more magic and power than the entire Vienna Philharmonic and Chorus laboring (once again) through the Mozart Requiem or Bach's B Minor Mass."
"Women: We cannot love them all. But we must try."
"Epitaphs for a gravestone: 'Please: no hooliganism'; or 'Es prohibe se hace agua aqui'; or 'No comment'."
"In marriage, the occasional catastrophic crisis is easier to manage than the daily routine."
"Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins."
"Home is where, when you have to go there, you probably shouldn't."
"The world of employer and employee, like that of master and slave, debases both."
"The ideal kitchen-sink novel: Throw in everything but the kitchen sink. Then add the kitchen sink."
"The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while."
"Only a fool would leave the enjoyment of rainbows to the opticians. Or give the science of optics the last word on the matter."
"Henry James was our master of periphrasis -- the fine art of saying as little as possible in the greatest number of words."
"A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger."
"I once sat on the rim of a mesa above the Rio Grande for three days and nights, trying to have a vision. I got hungry and saw God in the form of a beef pie."
"A pretty girl can do no wrong."
"We're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view."
"Scientific method: There's a madness in the method."
"My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah."
"Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds."
"Music is a savage art, a measured madness."
"In metaphysics, the notion that earth and all that's on it is a mental construct is the product of people who spend their lives inside rooms. It is an indoor philosophy."