No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn sight better.

We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.

In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal.

Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful.

The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own.

A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be - will be - a human zoo. A high-tech slum.

Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record to truth of our time, and, of course, to promote esthetic bliss.