Life without music would be an intolerable insult.

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.

In this glare of brilliant emptiness, in this arid intensity of pure heat, in the heart of a weird solitude, great silence and grand desolution, all things recede to distrances out of reach, relecting light but impossible to touch, annihilating all thought and all that men have made to a spasm of whirling dust far out on the golden desert.

Generally speaking, it's a matter of only mild intellectual interest to me whether the earth goes around the sun or the sun goes around the earth. In fact, I don't care a rat's ass either way.

The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.

Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger.

The longest journey begins with a single step, not with a turn of the ignition key.