"The opening chords are from the last movement of Vaughan Williams' Sixth Symphony. It goes from there to a Skip James motif. Following that it moves to a Gregorian chant, Dies Irae. It's the most scary one in the Episcopal hymn books, it's all about the day of judgment. Then it returns to the Vaughan Williams chords, followed by a blues run of undetermined origin, then back to Skip James and so forth."

-- John Fahey, describing his piece, "Stomping Tonight on the Pennsylvania/Alabama Border" as found on the album Death Chants, Breakdowns and Military Waltzes.

"Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'"

-- Charles M. Schulz

"The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question."

-- Stephen Jay Gould

"For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing."

--H. L. Mencken

"A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff nature replaces it with."

--Tennessee Williams

"Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows."

-- David T. Wolf

"Failures are very public, and successes are short lived. It's the pleasure of drawing funny pictures that makes up for it."

--Bill Watterson
US cartoonist (1958 - )

"It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years."

-- Tom Lehrer

"Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere."

-- G. K. Chesterton

"Victory or death!"

-- Col. William Barret Travis

"The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern."

-- Lord Acton

"Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship."

-- Harry S. Truman

"Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable."

-- Samuel Johnson

“When I was young, I was told: 'You'll see, when you're fifty.' I am fifty and I haven't seen a thing.”

-- Erik Satie

"The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised."

-- George F. Will

"There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action."

-- Bertrand Russell

"All morons hate it when you call them a moron."

-- J.D. Salinger

"Silence is the pause in me when I am near to God."

-- Arvo Pärt

"Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness."

-- Cullen Hightower

"The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn.

The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it."

--P. J. O'Rourke