Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy.

How could anything non-controversial be of intellectual interest to grown-ups?

Life is too tragic for sadness: Let us rejoice.

It is not an easy thing to inflate a dog.

The knowledge that refuge is available, when and if needed, makes the silent inferno of the desert more easily bearable. Mountains complement desert as desert complements city, as wilderness complements and completes civilization.

No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.

If there's anyone still present whom I've failed to insult . . . I apologize.