There comes a time in the life of us all when we must lay aside our books or put down our tools and leave our place of work and walk forth on the road to meet the enemy face-to-face. Once and for all and at last

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

So I write mainly for the fun of it, the hell of it, the duty of it. I enjoy writing and will probably be a scribbler on my dying day, sprawled on some stony trail halfway between two dry waterholes.

You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.

Are people more important than the grizzly bear? Only from the point of view of some people.

The absurd vanity of metaphysicians who like to imagine that they create the world by thinking about it.

Concrete is heavy; iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.