God bless America. Let's try to save some of it.

Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we borrow from Christianity, science, American Indian traditions and world literature in general, including philosophy, and let the rest go hang? Borrow what we need but rely principally upon our own senses, common sense and daily living experience.

A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.

The greater your dreams, the more terrible your nightmares.

The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.

In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.

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