What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

I must confess that I know nothing whatsoever about true underlying reality, never having met any.

Mental degeneracy may be caused by lead poisoning. Or by a poor dip in the gene pool.

Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.

most of my wandering in the desert i've done alone. not so much from choice as from necessity - i generally prefer to go into places where no one else wants to go. i find that in contemplating the natural world my pleasure is greater if there are not too many others contemplating it with me, at the same time.

And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.

All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.