May your rivers flow without end... down into a desert of red rock, blue mesas, domes and pinnacles and grottos of endless stone, and down again into a deep vast ancient unknown chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs... where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you-beyond that next turning of the canyon walls.

Paradise for a happy man lies in his own good nature.

A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society.

All power rests on hierarchy: An army is nothing but a well-organized lynch mob.

Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.

A genius is always on duty; even his dreams are tax deductible.

I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who got away.