In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal.

No man likes to be smoked out of his hole in February.

The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.

Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.

By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.

My own ambition, my deepest and truest ambition, is to find within myself someday, somehow, the ability to do likewise, to do NOTHING - and find it enough.

Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.