Humankind will not be free until the last Kremlin commissar is strangled with the entrails of the last Pentagon chief of staff.

Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.

Belief in God? An afterlife? I believe in rock: this apodictic rock beneath my feet.

Football is a game for trained apes. That, in fact, is what most of the players are -- retarded gorillas wearing helmets and uniforms. The only thing more debased is the surrounding mob of drunken monkeys howling the gorillas on.

So I write mainly for the fun of it, the hell of it, the duty of it. I enjoy writing and will probably be a scribbler on my dying day, sprawled on some stony trail halfway between two dry waterholes.

Great art is never perfect; perfect art is never great.

The longest journey begins with a single step, not with the turn of an ignition key. That’s the best thing about walking, the journey itself. It doesn’t much matter whether you get where you’re going or not. You’ll get there anyway. Every good hike brings you eventually back home. Right where you started.