For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end. For a man, it is an end in itself.

Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game

The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

We are befouling and destroying our own home, we are committing a slow but accelerating race suicide and life murder - planetary biocide. Now there is a mighty theme for a mighty book but a challenge to which no modern novelist or poet has yet responded. Where is our Melville, our Milton, our Thomas Mann when we need him most?

Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.

Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so.