We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtues; without courage, the other virtues are useless.

In the first place you can't see anything from a car; you've got to get out of the goddamned contraption and walk, better yet crawl, on hands and knees, over the sandstone and through the thornbush and cactus. When traces of blood begin to mark your trail you'll begin to see something, maybe. Probably not.

Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.

One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word.

In all of nature, there is no sound more pleasing than that of a hungry animal at its feed. Unless you are the food.

There comes a point, in literary objectivity, when the author's self- effacement is hard to distinguish from moral cowardice.

Life is too tragic for sadness: Let us rejoice.