Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.

I find more and more, as I grow older, that I prefer women to men, children to adults, animals to humans.... And rocks to living things? No, I'm not that old yet.

A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society.

The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.

Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything.

One thing worse than self-hatred is chiggers.

Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless.