Girls, like flowers, bloom but once. But once is enough.

Though I've lived in the rural West most of my life, I never once fell in love with a horse. Not once. Neither end.

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

Every important change in our society, for the good, at least, has taken place because of popular pressure-pressure from below, from the great mass of people.

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.

The world exists for its own sake, not for ours. Swallow *that* pill!

Christian theology: nothing so grotesque could possibly be true.