I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake.

The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space.

So I write mainly for the fun of it, the hell of it, the duty of it. I enjoy writing and will probably be a scribbler on my dying day, sprawled on some stony trail halfway between two dry waterholes.

In the dog-eat-dog economy, the Doberman is boss.

There are some good things to be said about walking. Not many, but some. Walking takes longer, for example, than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed. I have a friend who's always in a hurry; he never gets anywhere. Walking makes the world much bigger and thus more interesting. You have time to observe the details. The utopian technologists foresee a future for us in which distance is annihilated... To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.

A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society.

There has never been a day in my life when I was not in love.