Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.

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

I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is worth saving.

The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink.

Three words remain that can yet stir the blood of man: the word 'rebellion'; the word 'revolt'; the word 'revolution'.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

Grand opera is a form of musical entertainment for people who hate music.