I'm happy to respect authority when it's genuine authority, based on moral or intellectual or even technical superiority. I'm eager to follow a hero if we can find one. But I tend to resist or evade any kind of authority based merely on the power to coerce. Government, for example. The Army tried to train us to salute the uniform, not the man. Failed. I will salute the man, maybe, if I think he's worthy of it, but I don't salute uniforms anymore.

All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.

There's nothing so obscene and depressing as an American Christmas.

Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as mother love or cherry pie.

We should restore the practice of dueling. It might improve manners around here.

Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.

A cowboy is a hired hand on the middle of a horse contemplating the hind end of a cow.