Natural villains are hard to come by, what with all the shrinks and social-scientist types threatening to understand everybody into the ground.

the metabolism of a consumer society requires it continually to eat and excrete, every day throwing itself away in plastic bags.

We are on a sexual binge in this country. ... One consequence of this binge is that while people now get into bed more readily and a lot more naturally than they once did, what happens there often seems less important.

Californians tend to be outspoken. When the great migration began, the more timid people must have stayed home, and the bolder ones headed west.

Mind and body are not to be taken lightly. Their connection is intimate and mysterious, and better mapped by poets than pornographers.

Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man.

Huge herds of vigorous, curious, open-eyed Americans freely roaming the world are, it seems to me, quite possibly a vital national resource today as at no other time in our history.