Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.

We are kindred all of us, ... killer and victim, predator and prey, me and the sly coyote, the soaring buzzard, the elegant gopher snake, the trembling cottontail, the foul worms that feed on our entrails, all of them, all of us.

This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and animals. Stand up for the stupid and crazy. Take your hat off to no man.

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

I doubt that my sense of personal freedom is any stronger than anybody else's. I'm happy to respect authority when it's genuine authority, based on moral or intellectual or even technical superiority. I'm eager to follow a hero if we can find one. But I tend to resist or evade any kind of authority based merely on the power to coerce. Government, for example. The Army tried to train us to salute the uniform, not the man. Failed. I will salute the man, maybe, if I think he's worthy of it, but I don't salute uniforms anymore.

Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.