When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.

To the Technocrats: Have mercy on us. Relax a bit, take time out for simple pleasures. For example, the luxuries of electricity, indoor plumbing, central heating, instant electronic communication and such, have taught me to relearn and enjoy the basic human satisfactions of dipping water from a cold clear mountain stream; of building a wood fire in a cast-iron stove; of using long winter nights for making music, making things, making love; of writing long letters, in longhand with a fountain pen, to the few people on this earth I truly care about.

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

Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.

A city man is a home anywhere, for all big cities are much alike. But a country man has a place where he belongs, where he always returns, and where, when the time comes, he is willing to die.

The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.

An economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human.