Water is the true wealth in a dry land.

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

I am terribly glad to be alive; and when I have wit enough to think about it, terribly proud to be a man and an American, with all the rights and privileges that those words connote; and most of all I am humble before the responsibilities that are also mine. For no right comes without a responsibility, and being born luckier than most of the world's millions, I am also born more obligated.

If you avoid the killer diseases and keep the degenerative ones under control with sensible diet and exercise and whatever chemotherapy you need to stay in balance, you can live nearly forever.

Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.

Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers.

Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity and gives us a little more hope that we have a future.