I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.

In the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood.

I am an enemy of the State. But isn't everyone?

Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our antimaterialist, otherworldly, New Age, spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu, and seaweed slime.

I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is worth saving.

In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.