Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.

Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.

Great art is indefinable but that's all right; it exists anyway.

Let the people walk. Or ride horses, bicycles, mules, wild pigs-anything-but keep the automobiles and the motorcycles and all their motorized relatives out. We have agreed not to drive our automobiles into cathedrals, concert halls, art museums, legislative assemblies, private bedrooms and other sanctums of our culture; we should treat our national parks with the same deference, for they, too, are holy places.

I hate intellectual discussion. When I hear the words 'phenomenology' or 'structuralism', I reach for my buck knife.

Once upon a time, I dreamed of becoming a great man. Later, a good man. Now, finally, I find it difficult enough and honor enough to be -- a man.

War: First day in the U.S. Army, the government placed a Bible in my left hand, a bayonet in the other.