In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.
Cold morning on Aztec Peak Fire Lookout. First, build fire in old stove. Second, start coffee. Then, heat up last night’s pork chops and spinach for breakfast. Why not? And why the hell not?
I’m a fastidious sort of fellow, fond of watermelon and buckbrush nuts.
Filling out the form: Race? Human. Religion? Paiute. Occupation? Criminal anarchy. Hobbies? Survival with honor.
War? The one war I’d be happy to join is the war against officers.
We should restore the practice of dueling. It might improve manners around here.
The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.
In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.
Why I oppose the nuclear-arms race: I prefer the human race.
Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it.
Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.
Democracy – rule by the people – sounds like a fine thing; we should try it sometime in America.
Some of my ancestors fought in the American Revolution. A few more wore red coats, a few wore blue coats, and the rest wore no coats at all. We never did figure out who won that war.
Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers – obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.
Anarchy works. Italy has proved it for a thousand years.
In history-as-politics, the ‘future’ is that vacuum in time waiting to be filled with the antics of statesmen.
Tofu and futons. The adepts of Orientalism seem to spend most of their lives reclining. They can’t quite summon the energy to crawl up onto a chair. Even their Yogic exercises are carried out in a prone or sitting position.
The New Age orgy: The flesh was willing but the spirit’s weak.
The world of employer and employee, like that of master and slave, debases both.
In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students.