The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink.

If the end does not justify the means - what can?

Those who fear death most are those who enjoy life least.

In everything but brains and brawn, women are vastly superior to men. A different race.

A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization.

I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them.

To the question: Wilderness, who needs it? Doc would say: Because we like the taste of freedom, comrades. Because we like the smell of danger. But, thought Hayduke, what about the smell of fear, Dad?