If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate others. Neither to serve nor to rule: That was the American dream.

There has never been an 'original' sin: each is quite banal.

Wilderness begins in the human mind.

For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end. For a man, it is an end in itself.

Beware of your wishes: They will probably come true.

Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.

Humans were free before the word freedom became necessary.