All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.

I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature.

Alaska's chief attractions are: (a) its small and insignificant human population, thanks to the miserable climate; and (b) its large and magnificent wildlife population, thanks to (a). Both of these attractions are being rapidly diminished, however, by (c) the Law of Growth and Space-Age Sleaze.

A good philosopher is one who does not take ideas seriously.

There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.

We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism -- a Mongoloid metaphysic.

Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.