I assume that the point of American democracy is you can express any point of view you want.

I might become an ascetic, live in India. A little rice is about the best I can do now.

In the town of Ravella, where I have a house, when the Supreme Court said that an act of sodomy, as they describe it, could not be committed between a man and his wife, the entire square burst into laughter.

It is curious how often one prefers his enemies to his friends.

Whether you have an abortion, what you put in your own body, with whom you have sex - these are not affairs of the state. A government does not exist to control the citizens. When it does, it is a tyranny, and must be fought. The tree of liberty, Jefferson warned us, must be refreshed with the blood of tyrants and patriots.

If [drugs] didn't exist, our government would have to invent them, the better to enact laws aimed at keeping the citizens "sinless and obedient."

If Henry Miller often sounded like a village idiot, it is because, like Whitman, he was the rest of the village as well.