Books are like eggs -- best when fresh.

No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn sight better.

Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind.

We need wilderness because we are wild animals. Everyone needs a place where he can go to go crazy in peace. For the terror, freedom, and delirium. Because we need brutality and raw adventure, because men and women first learned to love in, under, and all around trees, because we need for every pair of feet and legs about ten leagues of naked nature, crags to leap from, mountains to measure by, deserts to finally die in when the heart fails.

Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.

There never was a good war or a bad revolution.

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