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

In the world of words, one of my best-loved tribes is the diatribe.

What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most.

Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.

New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive anywhere, why live in New York?

I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth.

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."