The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own.

Writing on the wall: Will trade three blind crabs for two with no teeth.

What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most.

Love flowers best in openness and freedom.

If a man’s imagination were not so weak, so easily tired, if his capacity for wonder not so limited, he would abandon forever such fantasies of the supernal. He would learn to perceive in water, leaves and silence more than sufficient of the absolute and marvelous, more than enough to console him for the loss of the ancient dream.

Filling out the form: Race? Human. Religion? Paiute. Occupation? Criminal anarchy. Hobbies? Survival with honor.

In the Soviet Union, government controls industry. In the United States, industry controls government. That is the principal structural difference between the two great oligarchies of our time.