How long does it take to write a good book? All of the years that you've lived.

All serious writers want the obvious rewards: fame, money, women, love -- and most of all, an audience!

Books are like eggs -- best when fresh.

All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if only for an hour.

Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

Industrial tourism is a threat to the national parks. But the chief victims of the system are the motorized tourists. They are being robbed and robbing themselves. So long as they are unwilling to crawl out of their cars they will not discover the treasures of the national parks and will never escape the stress and turmoil of the urban-suburban complexes which they had hoped, presumably, to leave behind for a while.