The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe -- fear and awe of the State.

I'm in favor of animal liberation. Why? Because I'm an animal.

The writer concerned more with technique than truth becomes a technician, not an artist.

In this glare of brilliant emptiness, in this arid intensity of pure heat, in the heart of a weird solitude, great silence and grand desolution, all things recede to distrances out of reach, relecting light but impossible to touch, annihilating all thought and all that men have made to a spasm of whirling dust far out on the golden desert.

I have been a lucky man. But someone has to be.

The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.

The longest journey begins with a single step, not with the turn of an ignition key. That’s the best thing about walking, the journey itself. It doesn’t much matter whether you get where you’re going or not. You’ll get there anyway. Every good hike brings you eventually back home. Right where you started.