Man's deliberate destruction of his own habitat -- planet Earth -- could serve as a mighty theme for a mighty book worthy of a modern Melville or Tolstoy. But our best fictioneers confine themselves to domestic drama -- soap opera with literary trimmings.

Platitude: a statement that denies by implication what it explicitly affirms.

To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for every question.

The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space.

Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.

The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life forms. Love flowers best in openness and freedom.

Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.