I want my body to help fertilize the growth of a cactus or cliff rose or sagebrush or tree.

Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.

All men are brothers, we like to say, half-wishing sometimes in secret it were not true. But perhaps it is true. And is the evolutionary line from protozoan to Spinoza any less certain? That also may be true. We are obliged, therefore, to spread the news, painful and bitter though it may be for some to hear, that all living things on earth are kindred.

Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.

If you feel that you're not ready to die, never fear; nature will give you complete and adequate assistance when the time comes.

It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written.

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