Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.

Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.

You can't belay a man who's falling in love.

Guns don't kill people; people kill people. Of course, people with guns kill more people. But that's only natural. It's hard. But it's fair.

By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.

I hate intellectual discussion. When I hear the words 'phenomenology' or 'structuralism', I reach for my buck knife.

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