A good writer must have more than vin rosé in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.

Terrorism: deadly violence against humans and other living things, usually conducted by government against its own people.

Rocks, like louseworts and snail darters and pupfish and 3rdworld black, lesbian, feminist, militant poets, have rights, too. Especially the right to exist.

As between the skulking and furtive poacher, who hunts for the sake of meat, and the honest gentleman shooter, who kills for the pleasure of sport, I find the former a higher type of humanity.

The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by violence when convenient.

It is the difference between men and women, not the sameness, that creates the tension and the delight.

By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.