I believe in nothing that I cannot touch, kiss, embrace.... The rest is only hearsay.

My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.

There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.

I must confess that I know nothing whatsoever about true underlying reality, never having met any.

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

Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.

I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature.