We should restore the practice of dueling. It might improve manners around here.

To die alone, on rock under sun at the brink of the unknown, like a wolf, like a great bird, seems to me very good fortune indeed.

The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy. Not for nothing was the revolver called an "equalizer."

Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.

My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.

Art, science, philosophy, religion -- each offers at best only a crude simplification of actual living experience.

The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority reluctant to air in public their views on anything controversial. ... Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.