We need wilderness because we are wild animals. Everyone needs a place where he can go to go crazy in peace. For the terror, freedom, and delirium. Because we need brutality and raw adventure, because men and women first learned to love in, under, and all around trees, because we need for every pair of feet and legs about ten leagues of naked nature, crags to leap from, mountains to measure by, deserts to finally die in when the heart fails.

The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.

Nobody has so many friends that he can afford to lose one.

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

A man is not aware of his virtues (if any). Nevertheless, one hopes that they exist.

Mayonnaise, like hollandaise, was invented by the French to cover up the flavor of spoiled flesh, stale vegetables, rotten fish. Beware the sauce! Where food comes beslobbered with an elegant slime you may well suspect the integrity of the basic ingredients.

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