A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

The world is what it is, no less and no more, and therein lies its entire and sufficient meaning.

Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.

I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of Central Park, a Morgan police horse screaming in its jaws. We can never have enough of nature.

If the end does not justify the means - what can?

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

Susan Sontag: What she really wanted, throughout her career, was to grow up to be a Frenchman.