Life imitates art -- but badly.

Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger.

it will be objected that a constantly increasing population makes resistance and conservation a hopeless battle. this is true. unless a way is found to stabilize the nation's population, the parks can not be saved. or anything else worth a damn. wilderness preservation, like a hundred other good causes, will be forgotten under the overwhelming pressure of a struggle for mere survival and sanity in a completely urbanized, completely industrialized, ever more crowded environment. for my own part i would rather take my chances in a thermonuclear war than live in such a world.

Music clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart.

I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I'm a patriot. A dangerous man.

I, too, believe in fidelity. But how can I be true to one woman without being false to all the others?

Grand opera is a form of musical entertainment for people who hate music.