“left to my own devices, I'm content to wake myself with a fart.”
“Yet in my experience, when left to their own devices people will get up to one of two things: nothing much, and no good.”
“The human imagination is often disastrous when left to its own devices.”
“When left to its own devices it tends to make me look as if I’ve been set afire.”
“I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.”
“That is a good example of why efficient and trustworthy courts are so important. Without them, people are left to their own devices. Frequently, that means violent, vigilante devices. Order breaks down. We no longer have civilization, only individuals acting in their own interest, not the common interest.”