Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy.

Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking; namely, life.

Every important change in our society, for the good, at least, has taken place because of popular pressure-pressure from below, from the great mass of people.

Terrorism: deadly violence against humans and other living things, usually conducted by government against its own people.

I have been a lucky man. But someone has to be.

There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.

Put the park rangers to work. Lazy scheming loafers, they've wasted too many years selling tickets at toll booths and sitting behind desks filling out charts and tables