In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse.

Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!

How can I be so evil? It ain't easy.

J. Edgar Hoover, J. Bracken Lee, J. Parnell Thomas, J. Paul Getty -- you can always tell a shithead by that initial initial.

We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empire—a crackpot machine—that the specialists cannot comprehend and the managers cannot manage. Which is, furthermore, devouring world resources at an exponential rate. We are, most of us, dependent employees. …Edward Abbey (1927-1989)

Motherhood is an essential, difficult, and full-time job. Women who do not wish to be mothers should not have babies.

Literary critics, like a herd of cows or a school of fish, always face in the same direction, obeying that love for unity that every critic requires.