The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders. - Edward Abbey

Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper.

The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chain saws.

As for the "solitary confinement of the mind," my theory is that solipsism, like other absurdities of the professional philosopher, is a product of too much time wasted in library stacks between the covers of a book, in smoke-filled coffeehouses (bad for brains) and conversation-clogged seminars. To refute the solipsist or the metaphysical idealist all that you have to do is take him out and throw a rock at his head: if he ducks he's a liar. His logic may be airtight but his argument, far from revealing the delusions of living experience, only exposes the limitations of logic.