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

I do not believe in personal immortality; it seems so unnecessary. Show me one man who deserves to live forever.

We are kindred all of us, killer and victim, predator and prey, me and the sly coyote, the soaring buzzard, the elegant gopher snake, and trembling cottontail, the foul worms that feed on our entrails; all of them, all of us. Long live diversity, long live the earth!

My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.

I'm a fastidious sort of fellow, fond of watermelon and buckbrush nuts.

The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents.

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.