A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

--Frank Zappa

> I don't choose what I compose. It chooses me.
~ Gustav Mahler

"I am tired of fighting. Our Chiefs are killed; Looking Glass is dead, Ta Hool Hool Shute is
dead. The old men are all dead. It is the young men who say yes or no. He who led on the young
men is dead. It is cold, and we have no blankets; the little children are freezing to death. My
people, some of them, have run away to the hills, and have no blankets, no food. No one knows
where they are - perhaps freezing to death. I want to have time to look for my children, and
see how many of them I can find. Maybe I shall find them among the dead. Hear me, my Chiefs!
I am tired; my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever."

Chief Joseph- October 5, 1877 in the Bear Paw Mountains

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

-- Marcel Proust

"We do not want riches. We want peace and love."

Red Cloud

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.

--Roy L. Smith

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.

--Garrison Keillor

> Christmas is not a time or a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real sprit of Christmas.
~ Calvin Cooldge

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

--Carl Reiner

A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads to your destination.

--Hal Borland

San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.

--Rudyard Kipling

Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.

--Robert A. Heinlein