The one great gift to humankind from our nuclear physicists has been the nuclear bomb. How can we ever thank them?

As Mark Twain said, 'I love Wagner -- if only they'd cut out all that damned singing!'

A journey into the wilderness is the freest, cheapest, most nonprivileged of pleasures. Anyone with two legs and the price of a pair of army surplus combat boots may enter.

When a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up an honest trade like shoe repair, cattle stealing, or screwworm management.

The Latino military fare badly when they stumble into war with the gringos. But in the torture, murder, and massacre of their own people, they have always performed with brilliance and elan.

In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth.

The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition.