Be a half-assed crusader, a part-time fanatic. Don't worry to much about the fate of the world. Saving the world is only a hobby. Get out there and enjoy the world, your girlfriend, your boyfriend, husbands wives; climb mountains, run rivers, get drunk, do whatever you want to do while you can, before it's too late.

I believe that there is a kind of poetry, even a kind of truth, in simple fact.

What is truth? I don't know and I'm sorry I brought it up.

It seems clear at last that our love for the natural world-Nature-is the only means by which we can requite God's obvious love for it.

I wouldn't trade a good horse for the best Rolls-Royce ever made -- unless I could trade the Rolls for two good horses.

Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper.

How can I be so evil? It ain't easy.