If the end does not justify the means - what can?

Music clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart.

We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase to live like men.

One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.

The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

It's all still there in heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure-they will grow larger, sweeter, lovelier in the days and years to come.