The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.

All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

Women truly are better than men. Otherwise, they'd be intolerable.

The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one.

I wouldn't trade a good horse for the best Rolls-Royce ever made -- unless I could trade the Rolls for two good horses.

Rocks, like louseworts and snail darters and pupfish and 3rdworld black, lesbian, feminist, militant poets, have rights, too. Especially the right to exist.