I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.

I love America because it is a confused, chaotic mess - and I hope we can keep it this way for at least another thousand years. The permissive society is the free society.

The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents.

Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so.

Of all the featherless beasts, only man, chained by his self-imposed slavery to the clock, denies the elemental fire and proceeds as best he can about his business, suffering quietly, martyr to his madness. Much to learn.

The hawk's cry is as sharp as its beak.

There is a fine art to making enemies and it requires diligent cultivation. It's not as easy as it looks.