Wilderness begins in the human mind.
Beware of the man who has no enemies.
In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students.
Most of the literary classics are worth reading, if you've nothing better to do.
Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper.
Places: a cold, bleak, lonely day on the rim at Muley Point, Utah. And the heart-cracking loveliness of the blood-smeared, bitter, incomprehensible slaughterhouse of a world.