High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring

Three words remain that can yet stir the blood of man: the word 'rebellion'; the word 'revolt'; the word 'revolution'.

The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live. And we pay them for it.

When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful.

The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.

My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel.

Is it possible to grow wiser without knowing it? One hopes so. We all hope so.