The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.

I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I've encountered some unnecessary resistance that's because most of the traffic is going the other way.

Trout fishing. One must be a stickler for proper form. Use nothing but #4 blasting caps, or a hand grenade, if handy, or at a pool well-lined with stone, one blast from a .44 magnum will bring a few stunned brookies quietly to the surface.

By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.

We live in a society in which it is normal to be sick; and sick to be abnormal.

The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.

We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase to live like men.