All power rests on hierarchy: An army is nothing but a well-organized lynch mob.

Anarchy works. Italy has proved it for a thousand years.

There has never been a day in my life when I was not in love.

I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who got away.

How long does it take to write a good book? All of the years that you've lived.

I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of Central Park, a Morgan police horse screaming in its jaws. We can never have enough of nature.

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