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Our Culture Runs On Coffee And Gasoline, The First Often Tasting Like The Second.

Democracy -- Rule By The People -- Sounds Like A Fine Thing; We Should Try It Sometime In America.

It Is Not The Writer's Task To Answer Questions But To Question Answers. To Be Impertinent, Insolent, And, If Necessary, Subversive.

All Power Rests On Hierarchy: An Army Is Nothing But A Well-organized Lynch Mob.

Most Of My Wandering In The Desert I've Done Alone. Not So Much From Choice As From Necessity - I Generally Prefer To Go Into Places Where No One Else Wants To Go. I Find That In Contemplating The Natural World My Pleasure Is Greater If There Are Not Too Many Others Contemplating It With Me, At The Same Time.