With a few exceptions people don't want money. They want luxury and they want love and they want admiration.

And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.

A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling or teaching or ordering. Rather he seeks to establish a relationship of meaning, of feeling, of observing. We are lonesome animals. We spend all life trying to be less lonesome.

Intentions, good or bad, are not enough. There's luck or fate or something else that takes over.

There's a responsibility in being a person. It's more than just taking up space where air would be.

One of the laws of paleontology is that an animal which must protect itself with thick armour is degenerate. It is usually a sign that the species is on the road to extinction.

I’m in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection. But with Montana it is love. And it’s difficult to analyze love when you’re in it.