All living things on earth are kindred.

The rebel is doomed to a violent death. The rest of us can look forward to sedated expiration in a coma inside an oxygen tent, with tubes inserted in every bodily orifice.

If you feel that you're not ready to die, never fear; nature will give you complete and adequate assistance when the time comes.

The national parks belong to everyone. To the people. To all of us. The government keeps saying so and maybe, in this one case at least, the government is telling the truth. Hard to believe, but possible.

Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.

The axiom of conditioned repetition, like the binomial theorem, is nothing but a piece of insolence.

An empty man is full of himself.