Married couples who quarrel bitterly every day may really need each other as deeply as those who appear to be desperately in love.

The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.

The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live. And we pay them for it.

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

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

Life is cruel? Compared to what?

Vladimir Nabokov was a writer who cared nothing for music and whose favorite sport was the pursuit, capture, and murder of butterflies. This explains many things; for example, the fact that Nabokov's novels, for all their elegance and wit, resemble nothing so much as butterflies pinned to a board: pretty but dead; symmetrical but stiff.