Every important change in our society, for the good, at least, has taken place because of popular pressure-pressure from below, from the great mass of people.
Fence straddlers have no balls. In compensation, however, they enjoy a comfortable seat and can retreat swiftly, when danger threatens, to either side of the fence. There is something to be said for every position.
A good writer must have more than vin rosé in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.
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.
Is the Archbishop's blessing any more meaningful than the Politician's handshake? The come, they go, with bigger things than us on their minds.
Jack Kerouac, like a sick refrigerator, worked too hard at keeping cool and died on his mama's lap from alcohol and infantilism.
The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.
The desert wears... a veil of mystery. Motionless and silent it evokes in us an elusive hint of something unknown, unknowable, about to be revealed. Since the desert does not act it seems to be waiting -- but waiting for what?
Mayonnaise, like hollandaise, was invented by the French to cover up the flavor of spoiled flesh, stale vegetables, rotten fish. Beware the sauce! Where food comes beslobbered with an elegant slime you may well suspect the integrity of the basic ingredients.
Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.
Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County: any town with thirteen churches and only four bars has got an incipient social problem. That town is looking for trouble.
The New Age orgy: The flesh was willing but the spirit's weak.
Life is too tragic for sadness: Let us rejoice.
Paradise for a happy man lies in his own good nature.
What ideal, immutable Platonic cloud could equal the beauty and perfection of any ordinary everyday cloud floating over, say, Tuba City, Arizona, on a hot day in June?
Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.
God is love? Not bloody likely.
As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.
I believe in nothing that I cannot touch, kiss, embrace.... The rest is only hearsay.
The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while.
The world of employer and employee, like that of master and slave, debases both.
Anywhere, anytime, I'd sacrifice the finest nuance for a laugh, the most elegant trope for a smile.
In marriage, the occasional catastrophic crisis is easier to manage than the daily routine.
The sexual revolution transformed the American West: Now even cowboys can get laid.
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