England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.

most of my wandering in the desert i've done alone. not so much from choice as from necessity - i generally prefer to go into places where no one else wants to go. i find that in contemplating the natural world my pleasure is greater if there are not too many others contemplating it with me, at the same time.

The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live. And we pay them for it.

Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height.

The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space.

The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe -- fear and awe of the State.

But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.