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

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

The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space.

I find more and more, as I grow older, that I prefer women to men, children to adults, animals to humans.... And rocks to living things? No, I'm not that old yet.

Girls: I never wanted them all. Just all the ones I wanted.

Music is a savage art, a measured madness.

If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate others. Neither to serve nor to rule: That was the American dream.