Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.
The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chain saws.
You cannot reshape human nature without mutilating human beings.
The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.
Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.
Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging up mountains, slogging through swamps, rowing down rivers. The indoor life is the next best thing to premature burial.