Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.

Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.

Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?)

A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society.

One thing worse than self-hatred is chiggers.

There is a deep, abiding, unshakable satisfaction in a life of complete failure.

A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be - will be - a human zoo. A high-tech slum.