~ The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other--instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals. ~
~ If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government --and a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws ~
~ Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State. ~
~ Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and debris. ~
~ When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense ~
~ Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together ~
~ Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game ~
~ Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero ~
~ Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our anti-materialistic, otherworldly, New Age spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should be as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu and seaweed slime ~
~ My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel ~
~ One can imagine a sane, healthy, cheerful human society based on no more than the principals of common sense, as validated each day by work, play, and living experience. But this remains the most utopian and fantastic of ideals. ~
~ Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront. ~
~ Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. ~
~ A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. ~
~ Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it. ~
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