Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it.

The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.

Music begins where words leave off. Music expresses the inexpressible. If there is a Kingdom of Heaven, it lies in music.

Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our antimaterialist, otherworldly, New Age, spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu, and seaweed slime.

I want my body to help fertilize the growth of a cactus or cliff rose or sagebrush or tree.

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!

I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.