Nearly all of Latin America, from Chile to Mexico, is one long rack of torture. Financed, equipped, and refined by the U.S. government.

Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.

I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature.

I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth.

If you feel that you must suffer, then plan your suffering carefully -- as you choose your dreams, as you conceive your ancestors.

Government: If you refuse to pay unjust taxes, your property will be confiscated. If you attempt to defend your property, you will be arrested. If you resist arrest, you will be clubbed. If you defend yourself against clubbing, you will be shot dead. These procedures are known as the Rule of Law.

Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.