These aren't my rules. Come to think of it. I don't have any rules.
Never run away from anything. Never!
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
It is better to do something than to do nothing while waiting to do everything.
When you're 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you're 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you're 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place. You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.
If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.
Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.
I've always loved butterflies, because they remind us that it's never too late to transform ourselves.
I think we have to safeguard ourselves against people who are a menace to others, quite apart from what may have motivated their deeds.
To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from.