No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as that Glen Canyon Dam at Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County.

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.

Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?

Style: There is something in too much verbal felicity (as in Joyce or Nabokov or Borges) that can betray the writer into technique for the sake of technique.

The writer concerned more with technique than truth becomes a technician, not an artist.

The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.