Places: a cold, bleak, lonely day on the rim at Muley Point, Utah. And the heart-cracking loveliness of the blood-smeared, bitter, incomprehensible slaughterhouse of a world.

Women truly are better than men. Otherwise, they'd be intolerable.

All forms of government are pernicious, including good government.

Every moment is precious. And precarious.

As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.

A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.

Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.