Home is where, when you have to go there, you probably shouldn't.

Running the big rapids is like sex: half the fun lies in the anticipation. Two thirds of the thrill with the approach. The remainder is only ecstasy-or darkness.

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

I find more and more, as I grow older, that I prefer women to men, children to adults, animals to humans.... And rocks to living things? No, I'm not that old yet.

Are people more important than the grizzly bear? Only from the point of view of some people.

It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy.

It is always dishonest for a reviewer to review the author instead of the author's book.