I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth.

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

We are befouling and destroying our own home, we are committing a slow but accelerating race suicide and life murder - planetary biocide. Now there is a mighty theme for a mighty book but a challenge to which no modern novelist or poet has yet responded. Where is our Melville, our Milton, our Thomas Mann when we need him most?

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

I am an enemy of the State. But isn't everyone?

In everything but brains and brawn, women are vastly superior to men. A different race.

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