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

Paradise is the here and now, the actual, tangible, dogmatically real Earth on which we stand. Yes, God bless America, the Earth upon which we stand.

I am pleased enough with the surfaces - in fact they alone seem to me to be of much importance. Such things for example as the grasp of a child's hand in your own, the flavor of an apple, the embrace of a friend or lover, the silk of a girl's thigh, the sunlight on the rock and leaves, the feel of music, the bark of a tree, the abrasion of granite and sand, the plunge of clear water into a pool, the face of the wind - what else is there? What else do we need?

Guns don't kill people; people kill people. Of course, people with guns kill more people. But that's only natural. It's hard. But it's fair.

Concrete is heavy; iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.

The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe -- fear and awe of the State.

The one great gift to humankind from our nuclear physicists has been the nuclear bomb. How can we ever thank them?