The purpose of love, sex, and marriage is the production and raising of children. But look about you: Most people have no business having children. They are unqualified, either genetically or culturally or both, to reproduce such sorry specimens as themselves. Of all our privileges, the license to breed is the one most grossly abused.

What ideal, immutable Platonic cloud could equal the beauty and perfection of any ordinary everyday cloud floating over, say, Tuba City, Arizona, on a hot day in June?

What did Jesus say to the headwaiter at the Last Supper? 'Separate checks, please.'

This is the most beautiful place on Earth. There are many such places. Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind the image of the ideal place, the right place, the one true home, known or unknown, actual or visionary.

I believe in nothing that I cannot touch, kiss, embrace.... The rest is only hearsay.

The absurd vanity of metaphysicians who like to imagine that they create the world by thinking about it.

The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature.