What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most.

There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.

My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.

Those who fear death most are those who enjoy life least.

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.

I have been a lucky man. But someone has to be.

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.