Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless.

Life is unfair. And it's not fair that life is unfair.

Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.

For this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good enough.

An empty man is full of himself.

In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal.

How to Avoid Pleurisy: Never make love to a girl named Candy on the tailgate of a half-ton Ford pickup during a chill rain in April out on Grandview Point in San Juan County, Utah.