Why the critics, like a flock of ducks, always move in perfect unison: Their authority with the public depends upon an appearance of unanimous agreement. One dissenting voice would shatter the whole fragile structure.

In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.

I wouldn't trade a good horse for the best Rolls-Royce ever made -- unless I could trade the Rolls for two good horses.

Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so.

A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society.

The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war.

The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition.