Beauty is only skin deep; ugliness goes all the way through.

Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.

The result of this bestial lust is an indiscriminate and promiscuous splaying of all of my energies- wanting all, I accomplish nothing; desiring everything, I satisfy nothing and am satisfied by nothing.

Cowboys make better lovers: Ask any cow.

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.

There are some good things to be said about walking. Not many, but some. Walking takes longer, for example, than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed. I have a friend who's always in a hurry; he never gets anywhere. Walking makes the world much bigger and thus more interesting. You have time to observe the details. The utopian technologists foresee a future for us in which distance is annihilated... To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.

Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties.