When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful.

A giant thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.

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

I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.

The one great gift to humankind from our nuclear physicists has been the nuclear bomb. How can we ever thank them?

Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our antimaterialist, otherworldly, New Age, spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu, and seaweed slime.

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