Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless.

Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful.

The love of a man for his wife, his child, of the land where he lives and works, is for me the real meaning of mystical experience.

Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.

Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.

Paradise is the here and now, the actual, tangible, dogmatically real Earth on which we stand. Yes, God bless America, the Earth upon which we stand.

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