The human is the only guilty animal.

The trash and litter of nature disappears into the ground with the passing of each year, but man's litter has more permanence.

A plan is a real thing, and things projected are experienced. A plan once made and visualized becomes reality along with other realities—never to be destroyed but easily to be attacked.

When we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and must, it will be possible to drive from New York to California without seeing a single thing.

(Suicide) takes some doing, with maybe pain and maybe hell.

Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is--and a woman too, I guess.

The church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. And each would have been horrified to think it was a different facet of the same thing. But surely they were both intended to accomplish the same thing: the singing, the devotion, the poetry of the churches took a man out of his bleakness for a time, and so did the brothels.