In all of nature, there is no sound more pleasing than that of a hungry animal at its feed. Unless you are the food.

Defiance is beautiful. The defiance of power, especially great or overwhelming power, exalts and glorifies the rebel.

Those who dream of the joys of living in a space colony should live in a space colony.

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

In both metaphysics and art, honesty is the best policy. Keep it clean.

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.

In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students.