The dog's life is a good life, for a dog.

In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.

Grand opera is a form of musical entertainment for people who hate music.

Most of us lead lives of chaotic improvisation from day to day, bawling for peace while plunging grimly into fresh disorders.

If industrial man continues to multiply his numbers and expand his operations he will succeed in his apparent intention, to seal himself off from the natural and isolate himself within a synthetic prison of his own making.

But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.

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.