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

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own.

In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.

Don't talk to me about other worlds, separate realities, lost continents or invisible realms -- I know where I belong. Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.

A true conservative must necessarily be a conservationist.

Critics are like ticks on a dog or tits on a motor: ornamental but dysfunctional.