Suicide: Don't knock it if you ain't tried it.

The result of this bestial lust is an indiscriminate and promiscuous splaying of all of my energies- wanting all, I accomplish nothing; desiring everything, I satisfy nothing and am satisfied by nothing.

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?

Defiance is beautiful. The defiance of power, especially great or overwhelming power, exalts and glorifies the rebel.

Jesus don't walk on water no more; his feet leak.

Great art is never perfect; perfect art is never great.

We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.