I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is worth saving.

I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I've encountered some unnecessary resistance that's because most of the traffic is going the other way.

I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.

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.

The New Age orgy: The flesh was willing but the spirit's weak.

As Mark Twain said, 'I love Wagner -- if only they'd cut out all that damned singing!'

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.