From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.

By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.

The rebel is doomed to a violent death. The rest of us can look forward to sedated expiration in a coma inside an oxygen tent, with tubes inserted in every bodily orifice.

You cannot reshape human nature without mutilating human beings.

Let the people walk. Or ride horses, bicycles, mules, wild pigs-anything-but keep the automobiles and the motorcycles and all their motorized relatives out. We have agreed not to drive our automobiles into cathedrals, concert halls, art museums, legislative assemblies, private bedrooms and other sanctums of our culture; we should treat our national parks with the same deference, for they, too, are holy places.