Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called development?

A shelf of classics for our young adults: Tolkien, Hesse, Casteneda, Kerouac, Salinger, Tom Robbins, and _The Last Whole Earth Catalog_.

War: First day in the U.S. Army, the government placed a Bible in my left hand, a bayonet in the other.

Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.

The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority reluctant to air in public their views on anything controversial. ... Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.

Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.

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