Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.

Literature, like anything else, can become a wearisome business if you make a lifetime specialty of it. A healthy, wholesome man would no more spend his entire life reading great books than he would packing cookies for Nabisco.

Let the people walk. Or ride horses, bicycles, mules, wild pigs-anything-but keep the automobiles and the motorcycles and all their motorized relatives out. We have agreed not to drive our automobiles into cathedrals, concert halls, art museums, legislative assemblies, private bedrooms and other sanctums of our culture; we should treat our national parks with the same deference, for they, too, are holy places.

Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.

To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.

Without courage, all other virtues are useless.

It is the difference between men and women, not the sameness, that creates the tension and the delight.