Only the half-mad are wholly alive.

Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.

At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, "thus far and no further." If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, "If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour.

There is no trajectory so pathetic as that of an artist in decline.

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything.

Metaphysics is a cobweb that the mind weaves around things.