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

Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy.

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

Why do I live in the desert? Because the desert is the *locus Dei*.

Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.

Literature, like anything else, can become a wearisome business if you make a lifetime specialty of it. A healthy, wholesome man would no more spend his entire life reading great books than he would packing cookies for Nabisco.

A woman, as much as a man, is responsible by the age of forty for the character of her face. But women, obeying the biological imperative, strive harder to preserve a youthful appearance (the reproductive look) and lose it sooner.