Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.

Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.

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

What's the difference between the Lone Ranger and God? There really is a Lone Ranger.

To the question: Wilderness, who needs it? Doc would say: Because we like the taste of freedom, comrades. Because we like the smell of danger. But, thought Hayduke, what about the smell of fear, Dad?

We are kindred all of us, killer and victim, predator and prey, me and the sly coyote, the soaring buzzard, the elegant gopher snake, and trembling cottontail, the foul worms that feed on our entrails; all of them, all of us. Long live diversity, long live the earth!

There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.