A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.

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.

Art, science, philosophy, religion -- each offers at best only a crude simplification of actual living experience.

The love of a man for his wife, his child, of the land where he lives and works, is for me the real meaning of mystical experience.

The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all.

I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake.

Jesus don't walk on water no more; his feet leak.