Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear-the earth remains, slightly modified. The earth remains, and the heartbreaking beauty where there are no hearts to break....I sometimes choose to think, no doubt perversely, that man is a dream, thought an illusion, and only rock is real. Rock and sun.

How to Avoid Pleurisy: Never make love to a girl named Candy on the tailgate of a half-ton Ford pickup during a chill rain in April out on Grandview Point in San Juan County, Utah.

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

A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization.

A house built on greed cannot long endure.

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

No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn sight better.