Writing on the wall: Will trade three blind crabs for two with no teeth.

Be a half-assed crusader, a part-time fanatic. Don't worry to much about the fate of the world. Saving the world is only a hobby. Get out there and enjoy the world, your girlfriend, your boyfriend, husbands wives; climb mountains, run rivers, get drunk, do whatever you want to do while you can, before it's too late.

Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.

Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful.

Civilization, like an airplane in flight, survives only as it keeps going forward.

Susan Sontag: What she really wanted, throughout her career, was to grow up to be a Frenchman.

A life without tragedy would not be worth living.