Motherhood is an essential, difficult, and full-time job. Women who do not wish to be mothers should not have babies.

Only a fool is astonished by the foolishness of mankind.

I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.

We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtues; without courage, the other virtues are useless.

There is a wine called Easy Days and Mellow Nights, well-known on the outskirts of the Navajo reservation. It is an economical wine, fortified with the best of intentions, and I recommend it to every serious wino.

The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.

No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as that Glen Canyon Dam at Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County.