I'm a fastidious sort of fellow, fond of watermelon and buckbrush nuts.

I am an enemy of the State. But isn't everyone?

The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.

The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A civilization which destroys what little remains of the wild, the spare, the original, is cutting itself off from its origins and betraying the principle of civilization itself.

We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism -- a Mongoloid metaphysic.

For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end. For a man, it is an end in itself.