The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chainsaws. It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend and preserve it. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while.

When a man must be afraid to drink freely from his country's river and streams that country is no longer fit to live in.

What did Jesus say to the headwaiter at the Last Supper? 'Separate checks, please.'

All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.

In everything but brains and brawn, women are vastly superior to men. A different race.

Poor Dimitri Shostakovich: In the Soviet Union, he was condemned as being too radical; in the West, for being too conservative. He could please no one but the musical public. He revenged himself on both by writing a short piece called 'March of the Soviet Police.'