I understand and sympathize with the reasonable needs of a reasonable number of people on a finite continent. All life depends upon other life. But what is happening today, in North America, is not rational use but irrational massacre. Man the Pest, multiplied to the swarming stage, is attacking the remaining forests like a plague of locusts on a field of grain.

I want my body to help fertilize the growth of a cactus or cliff rose or sagebrush or tree.

Homosexuality, like androgyny, might be an instinctive racial response to overpopulation, crowding, and stress. Both flourish when empire reaches its apogee.

I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature.

Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.

War: First day in the U.S. Army, the government placed a Bible in my left hand, a bayonet in the other.

Doctrines like Christianity or Islam or Marxism require unanimity of belief. One dissenter casts doubt on the creed of millions.