An economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human.

Life without music would be an intolerable insult.

One single act of defiance against power, against the State that seems omnipotent but is not, transforms and transfigures the human personality. At least for a time. For a while. Perhaps that is enough.

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

A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles.

How to Overthrow the System: brew your own beer; kick in your Tee Vee; kill your own beef; build your own cabin and piss off the front porch whenever you bloody well feel like it.

In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.