The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chain saws.

Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful.

How long does it take to write a good book? All of the years that you've lived.

One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.

The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.

We need wilderness because we are wild animals. Everyone needs a place where he can go to go crazy in peace. For the terror, freedom, and delirium. Because we need brutality and raw adventure, because men and women first learned to love in, under, and all around trees, because we need for every pair of feet and legs about ten leagues of naked nature, crags to leap from, mountains to measure by, deserts to finally die in when the heart fails.

There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.