Most of the literary classics are worth reading, if you've nothing better to do.

There is a fine art to making enemies and it requires diligent cultivation. It's not as easy as it looks.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

Desert springtime, with flowers popping up all over the place, trees leafing out, streams gushing down from the mountains. Great time of year for hiking, camping, exploring, sleeping under the new moon and the old stars. At dawn and at evening we hear the coyotes howling with excitement—mating season.

Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.

If you feel that you must suffer, then plan your suffering carefully -- as you choose your dreams, as you conceive your ancestors.

Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.