Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars.

It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.

When we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and must, it will be possible to drive from New York to California without seeing a single thing.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.

The proofs that God does not exist are very strong, but in lots of people they are not as strong as the feeling that He does.

I write because I like to write. I find joy in the texture and tone and rhythm of words. It is a satisfaction like that which follows good and shared love.