Critics are like ticks on a dog or tits on a motor: ornamental but dysfunctional.

Only a fool would leave the enjoyment of rainbows to the opticians. Or give the science of optics the last word on the matter.

Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything.

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

So I write mainly for the fun of it, the hell of it, the duty of it. I enjoy writing and will probably be a scribbler on my dying day, sprawled on some stony trail halfway between two dry waterholes.

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.

What's the difference between the Lone Ranger and God? There really is a Lone Ranger.