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

A house built on greed cannot long endure.

I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.

Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.

In marriage, the occasional catastrophic crisis is easier to manage than the daily routine.

As between the skulking and furtive poacher, who hunts for the sake of meat, and the honest gentleman shooter, who kills for the pleasure of sport, I find the former a higher type of humanity.

The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see.