Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!
I must confess that I know nothing whatsoever about true underlying reality, never having met any.
Capitalism sounds good in theory but it just doesn’t work.
I’ve never yet read a review of one of my own books that I couldn’t have written much better myself.
A world without open country would be universal jail.
Original sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all around us-if only we were worthy of it.
The national parks belong to everyone. To the people. To all of us. The government keeps saying so and maybe, in this one case at least, the government is telling the truth. Hard to believe, but possible.
The only thing left worth saving is wilderness.
The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders. Remaining silent about the destruction of nature is an endorsement of that destruction.
Money confers the power to command the labor of others. Love of money is love of power. And love of power is the root of evil.
Poetry – even bad poetry – may be our final hope.
Death is every man’s final critic. To die well you must live bravely.
Passion, sexual passion, may lead to marriage, but cannot sustain marriage. The purpose of marriage is the raising of children, for which patience, not passion, is the necessary foundation.
Suicide: Don’t knock it if you ain’t tried it.
The artist’s job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live...
The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values.
Cowboys make better lovers: Ask any cow.
Music is a savage art, a measured madness.
Life: another day, another dolor.
Might does not make right but it sure makes what is.