Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.

Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.

I'm in favor of animal liberation. Why? Because I'm an animal.

Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.

I have been a lucky man. But someone has to be.

Man was created to complete the horse.

We need wilderness because we are wild animals. Everyone needs a place where he can go to go crazy in peace. For the terror, freedom, and delirium. Because we need brutality and raw adventure, because men and women first learned to love in, under, and all around trees, because we need for every pair of feet and legs about ten leagues of naked nature, crags to leap from, mountains to measure by, deserts to finally die in when the heart fails.