You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.

War: First day in the U.S. Army, the government placed a Bible in my left hand, a bayonet in the other.

I'm a fastidious sort of fellow, fond of watermelon and buckbrush nuts.

Nature, like Maimonides said, is mainly a good place to throw beer cans on Sunday afternoons.

High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring

Anyone not paranoid in this world must be crazy. . . . Speaking of paranoia, it's true that I do not know exactly who my enemies are. But that of course is exactly why I'm paranoid.

Civilization, like an airplane in flight, survives only as it keeps going forward.