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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.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.
  ... -- Edward Abbey...
• Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies.
  To unfold the folded lie, to record to truth of our time, and, of course, to promote esthetic bliss....
• I am not an animal! I am ... well, not an animal.
• One thing I like about mountain climbing is that there are always plenty of excuses for turning back before disaster strikes.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• I live on a one-way, dead-end street ...
• Why do I live in the desert? Because the desert is the *locus Dei*. -- Edward Abbey
• I am not an animal. -- Elephant Ma
• Martin: I am the wondrous wizard of Latin! I am a dervish of declension and a conjurer of conjugation, with a million hit points and maximum charisma.
  [spots a blackboard with verbs written all over it] Aha!...