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

Democracy -- rule by the people -- sounds like a fine thing; we should try it sometime in America.

In the first place you can't see anything from a car; you've got to get out of the goddamned contraption and walk, better yet crawl, on hands and knees, over the sandstone and through the thornbush and cactus. When traces of blood begin to mark your trail you'll begin to see something, maybe. Probably not.

This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.

Narrow-minded provincialism: Sad to say but true - I am more interested in the mountain lions of Utah, the wild pigs of Arizona, than I am in the fate of all the Arabs of Araby, all the Wogs of Hindustan, all the Ethiopes of Abyssinia.

Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?

Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.