Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.
What is truth? I don't know and I'm sorry I brought it up.
There is a deep, abiding, unshakable satisfaction in a life of complete failure.
I'm in favor of animal liberation. Why? Because I'm an animal.
Doctrines like Christianity or Islam or Marxism require unanimity of belief. One dissenter casts doubt on the creed of millions.
I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I'm a patriot. A dangerous man.
A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.
High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring
The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space.
One must be reasonable in one's demands on life. For myself, all that I ask is: (1) accurate information; (2) coherent knowledge; (3) deep understanding; (4) infinite loving wisdom; (5) no more kidney stones, please.
I have found through trial and error that I work best under duress. In fact I work only under duress.
Water, water, water....There is no shortage of water in the desert but exactly the right amount , a perfect ratio of water to rock, water to sand, insuring that wide free open, generous spacing among plants and animals, homes and towns and cities, which makes the arid West so different from any other part of the nation. There is no lack of water here unless you try to establish a city where no city should be.
It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive.
One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word.
Let the people walk. Or ride horses, bicycles, mules, wild pigs-anything-but keep the automobiles and the motorcycles and all their motorized relatives out. We have agreed not to drive our automobiles into cathedrals, concert halls, art museums, legislative assemblies, private bedrooms and other sanctums of our culture; we should treat our national parks with the same deference, for they, too, are holy places.
Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.
In everything but brains and brawn, women are vastly superior to men. A different race.
By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.
Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get them read and talked about.
One can imagine a sane, healthy, cheerful human society based on no more than the principles of common sense, as validated each day by work, play, and living experience. But this remains the most utopian and fantastic of ideals.
The function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage into socially acceptable forms of combat. A temporary substitute for war; for nationalism; identification with something bigger than the self.
I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who got away.
Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful.
The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.
But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.
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