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

The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition.

I am happy to be a regional writer. My region is the American West, old Mexico, West Virginia, New York, Europe, Australia, the human heart, and the male groin.

Money confers the power to command the labor of others. Love of money is love of power. And love of power is the root of evil.

Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried.

Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.

it will be objected that a constantly increasing population makes resistance and conservation a hopeless battle. this is true. unless a way is found to stabilize the nation's population, the parks can not be saved. or anything else worth a damn. wilderness preservation, like a hundred other good causes, will be forgotten under the overwhelming pressure of a struggle for mere survival and sanity in a completely urbanized, completely industrialized, ever more crowded environment. for my own part i would rather take my chances in a thermonuclear war than live in such a world.