No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.

Of course I litter the public highway. Every chance I get. After all, it's not the beer cans that are ugly; it's the highway that is ugly.

All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.

Some lives are tragic, some ridiculous. Most are both at once.

Women truly are better than men. Otherwise, they'd be intolerable.

Beauty is only skin deep; ugliness goes all the way through.

To be alive is to take risks; to be always safe and secure is death.