In the world of words, one of my best-loved tribes is the diatribe.

We are kindred all of us, killer and victim, predator and prey, me and the sly coyote, the soaring buzzard, the elegant gopher snake, and trembling cottontail, the foul worms that feed on our entrails; all of them, all of us. Long live diversity, long live the earth!

The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.

Romanticism was more than merely an alternative to a sterile classicism; romanticism made possible, especially in art, a great expansion of the human consciousness.

Homosexuality, like androgyny, might be an instinctive racial response to overpopulation, crowding, and stress. Both flourish when empire reaches its apogee.

Mental degeneracy may be caused by lead poisoning. Or by a poor dip in the gene pool.

I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.