There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.

I intend to be good for the rest of my natural life -- if I live that long.

Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure.

When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful.

Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today.

Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God; this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.

One day in Dipstick, Nebraska, or Landfill, Oklahoma, is worth more to me than an eternity in Dante's plastic Paradiso, or Yeats's gold-plated Byzantium.