Simplicity is always a virtue.

Generally speaking, it's a matter of only mild intellectual interest to me whether the earth goes around the sun or the sun goes around the earth. In fact, I don't care a rat's ass either way.

The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own.

We can have wilderness without freedom; we can have wilderness without human life at all, but we cannot have freedom without wilderness, we cannot have freedom without leagues of open space beyond the cities, where boys and girls, men and women, can live at least part of their lives under no control but their own desires and abilities, free from any and all direct administration by their fellow men.

And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.

If people persist in trespassing upon the grizzlies' territory, we must accept the fact that the grizzlies, from time to time, will harvest a few trespassers.

Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.