No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike.

In a way, it is beautiful to be young and hard up. With the right wife, and I had her, deprivation became a game.

This early piece of the morning is mine.

We do not write what we know; we write what we want to find out.

To try to save for everyone, for the hostile and independent as well as the committed, some of the health that flows down across the green ridges from the skyline, and some of the beauty and spirit that are still available to any resident of the valley who has a moment and the wit to lift up his eyes unto the hills.

We are the most dangerous species of life on the planet, and every other species, even the earth itself, has cause to fear our power to exterminate. But we are also the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.

To have so little, and it of so little value, was to be quaintly free.