England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.

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

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!

Girls: I never wanted them all. Just all the ones I wanted.

Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.

Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything.

most of my wandering in the desert i've done alone. not so much from choice as from necessity - i generally prefer to go into places where no one else wants to go. i find that in contemplating the natural world my pleasure is greater if there are not too many others contemplating it with me, at the same time.