Girls: I never wanted them all. Just all the ones I wanted.

Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.

The rich are not very nice. That's why they're rich.

No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn sight better.

Great art is never perfect; perfect art is never great.

I'm happy to respect authority when it's genuine authority, based on moral or intellectual or even technical superiority. I'm eager to follow a hero if we can find one. But I tend to resist or evade any kind of authority based merely on the power to coerce. Government, for example. The Army tried to train us to salute the uniform, not the man. Failed. I will salute the man, maybe, if I think he's worthy of it, but I don't salute uniforms anymore.

The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.