I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who got away.

Romanticism was more than merely an alternative to a sterile classicism; romanticism made possible, especially in art, a great expansion of the human consciousness.

Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful. (p 41)

I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is worth saving.

The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.

The function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage into socially acceptable forms of combat. A temporary substitute for war; for nationalism; identification with something bigger than the self.

Not all questions can be answered.