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.

The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.

I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.

Nature, like Maimonides said, is mainly a good place to throw beer cans on Sunday afternoons.

Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock. I believe in blood, fire, woman, rivers, eagles, storm, drums, flutes, banjos, and broom-tailed horses.

It is always dishonest for a reviewer to review the author instead of the author's book.

To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for every question.