There's another disadvantage to the use of the flashlight: like many other mechanical gadgets it tends to separate a man from the world around him. If I switch it on my eyes adapt to it and I can see only the small pool of light it makes in front of me; I am isolated. Leaving the flashlight in my pocket where it belongs, I remain a part of the environment I walk through and my vision though limited has no sharp or definite boundary.

To be alive is to take risks; to be always safe and secure is death.

The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live. And we pay them for it.

Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.

If you feel that you're not ready to die, never fear; nature will give you complete and adequate assistance when the time comes.

Simplicity is always a virtue.

Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it.