A cowboy is a hired hand on the middle of a horse contemplating the hind end of a cow.

The writer concerned more with technique than truth becomes a technician, not an artist.

What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.

How could anything non-controversial be of intellectual interest to grown-ups?

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A civilization which destroys what little remains of the wild, the spare, the original, is cutting itself off from its origins and betraying the principle of civilization itself.

The "terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.