Most new books drop immediately into the oblivion they so richly deserve.

A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.

America My Country: last nation on earth to abolish human slavery; first of all nations to drop the nuclear bomb on our fellow human beings.

A shelf of classics for our young adults: Tolkien, Hesse, Casteneda, Kerouac, Salinger, Tom Robbins, and _The Last Whole Earth Catalog_.

High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring

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

Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.