Grown men do not need leaders.

I believe that there is a kind of poetry, even a kind of truth, in simple fact.

When a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up an honest trade like shoe repair, cattle stealing, or screwworm management.

If people persist in trespassing upon the grizzlies' territory, we must accept the fact that the grizzlies, from time to time, will harvest a few trespassers.

The best argument for Christianity is the Gregorian chant. Listening to that music, one can believe anything -- while the music lasts.

We are kindred all of us, killer and victim, predator and prey, me and the sly coyote, the soaring buzzard, the elegant gopher snake, and trembling cottontail, the foul worms that feed on our entrails; all of them, all of us. Long live diversity, long live the earth!

Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful.