The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.

Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our antimaterialist, otherworldly, New Age, spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu, and seaweed slime.

A pretty girl can do no wrong.

We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtues; without courage, the other virtues are useless.

In the afternoon I watch the clouds drift past the bald peak of Mount Tukuhnikivats. (Someone has to do it.)

The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values.

I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.