A leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the whip, the power of fear.

Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in.

Alaska's chief attractions are: (a) its small and insignificant human population, thanks to the miserable climate; and (b) its large and magnificent wildlife population, thanks to (a). Both of these attractions are being rapidly diminished, however, by (c) the Law of Growth and Space-Age Sleaze.

Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it.

Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height.

Life is too tragic for sadness: Let us rejoice.

The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents.