Of all the featherless beasts, only man, chained by his self-imposed slavery to the clock, denies the elemental fire and proceeds as best he can about his business, suffering quietly, martyr to his madness. Much to learn.

A rancher is a farmer who farms the public lands with a herd of four-legged lawn mowers.

I choose to listen to the river for a while, thinking river thoughts, before joining the night and the stars.

Defiance is beautiful. The defiance of power, especially great or overwhelming power, exalts and glorifies the rebel.

There is no trajectory so pathetic as that of an artist in decline.

The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all.

Every important change in our society, for the good, at least, has taken place because of popular pressure-pressure from below, from the great mass of people.