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.

We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to go there. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.

My own ambition, my deepest and truest ambition, is to find within myself someday, somehow, the ability to do likewise, to do NOTHING - and find it enough.

I'm a fastidious sort of fellow, fond of watermelon and buckbrush nuts.

The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.

No man likes to be smoked out of his hole in February.

In marriage, the occasional catastrophic crisis is easier to manage than the daily routine.