Humans were free before the word freedom became necessary.

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

My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

most of my wandering in the desert i've done alone. not so much from choice as from necessity - i generally prefer to go into places where no one else wants to go. i find that in contemplating the natural world my pleasure is greater if there are not too many others contemplating it with me, at the same time.

You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.

There has never been an 'original' sin: each is quite banal.