There is a wine called Easy Days and Mellow Nights, well-known on the outskirts of the Navajo reservation. It is an economical wine, fortified with the best of intentions, and I recommend it to every serious wino.

There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.

The greater your dreams, the more terrible your nightmares.

Humility is a virtue when you have no other.

Literature, like anything else, can become a wearisome business if you make a lifetime specialty of it. A healthy, wholesome man would no more spend his entire life reading great books than he would packing cookies for Nabisco.

Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.

Nature, like Maimonides said, is mainly a good place to throw beer cans on Sunday afternoons.