The New Age orgy: The flesh was willing but the spirit's weak.

I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.

In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.

I suppose each of us has his own fantasy of how he wants to die. I would like to go out in a blaze of glory, myself, or maybe simply disappear someday, far out in the heart of the wilderness I love, all by myself, alone with the Universe and whatever God may happen to be looking on. Disappear - and never return. That's my fantasy.

There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.

The function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage into socially acceptable forms of combat. A temporary substitute for war; for nationalism; identification with something bigger than the self.

No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.