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.

Married couples who quarrel bitterly every day may really need each other as deeply as those who appear to be desperately in love.

Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air.

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

Those who dream of the joys of living in a space colony should live in a space colony.

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

A house built on greed cannot long endure.