The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe -- fear and awe of the State.

One can imagine a sane, healthy, cheerful human society based on no more than the principles of common sense, as validated each day by work, play, and living experience. But this remains the most utopian and fantastic of ideals.

Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.

A cowboy is a farm boy in leather britches and a comical hat.

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

The axiom of conditioned repetition, like the binomial theorem, is nothing but a piece of insolence.

Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.