At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, "thus far and no further." If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, "If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour.

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 social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse.

The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.

I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.

This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.

The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own.