The real work of men was hunting meat. The invention of agriculture was a giant step in the wrong direction, leading to serfdom, cities, and empire. From a race of hunters, artists, warriors, and tamers of horses, we degraded ourselves to what we are now: clerks, functionaries, laborers, entertainers, processors of information.

Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful.

In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse.

Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy.

In both metaphysics and art, honesty is the best policy. Keep it clean.

We live in a society in which it is normal to be sick; and sick to be abnormal.