My cousin Elroy spent seven years as an IBM taper staring at THINK signs on the walls before he finally got a good idea: He quit.

If you feel that you're not ready to die, never fear; nature will give you complete and adequate assistance when the time comes.

Tofu and futons. The adepts of Orientalism seem to spend most of their lives reclining. They can't quite summon the energy to crawl up onto a chair. Even their Yogic exercises are carried out in a prone or sitting position.

The greater your dreams, the more terrible your nightmares.

The world of employer and employee, like that of master and slave, debases both.

If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate others. Neither to serve nor to rule: That was the American dream.

A house built on greed cannot long endure.