Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in.

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

The world exists for its own sake, not for ours. Swallow *that* pill!

A good philosopher is one who does not take ideas seriously.

Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.

I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.

The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.