Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height.

Girls: I never wanted them all. Just all the ones I wanted.

A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!

A good philosopher is one who does not take ideas seriously.

Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so.

All serious writers want the obvious rewards: fame, money, women, love -- and most of all, an audience!