Mayonnaise, like hollandaise, was invented by the French to cover up the flavor of spoiled flesh, stale vegetables, rotten fish. Beware the sauce! Where food comes beslobbered with an elegant slime you may well suspect the integrity of the basic ingredients.

A pretty girl can do no wrong.

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

Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.

Phoenix, Arizona: an oasis of ugliness in the midst of a beautiful wasteland.

Every important change in our society, for the good, at least, has taken place because of popular pressure-pressure from below, from the great mass of people.

A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled surfaces. We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to set foot in it. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope; without it the life of the cities would drive all men into crime or drugs or psychoanalysis.