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There has never been an 'original' sin: each is quite banal.
If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.
In art as in life, form and subject, body and soul, are one.
When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
Beauty is only skin deep; ugliness goes all the way through.
Why I oppose the nuclear-arms race: I prefer the human race.
We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.
A good philosopher is one who does not take ideas seriously.
Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried.
We're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view.
A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.
There has never been a day in my life when I was not in love.
A cowboy is a farm boy in leather britches and a comical hat.
Concrete is heavy; iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.
Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.
Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!
Some lives are tragic, some ridiculous. Most are both at once.
One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word.
The New Age orgy: The flesh was willing but the spirit's weak.
I'm in favor of animal liberation. Why? Because I'm an animal.
Every man should be his own guru; every woman her own gurette.
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.
A genius is always on duty; even his dreams are tax deductible.
You cannot reshape human nature without mutilating human beings.
Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.
Christian theology: nothing so grotesque could possibly be true.
Great art is indefinable but that's all right; it exists anyway.
Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.
Home is where, when you have to go there, you probably shouldn't.
The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.
To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.
All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?
War? The one war I'd be happy to join is the war against officers.
Women truly are better than men. Otherwise, they'd be intolerable.
All forms of government are pernicious, including good government.
There is no trajectory so pathetic as that of an artist in decline.
God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.
In the world of words, one of my best-loved tribes is the diatribe.
Why do I live in the desert? Because the desert is the *locus Dei*.
There's nothing so obscene and depressing as an American Christmas.
The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.
To be alive is to take risks; to be always safe and secure is death.
In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth.
The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else.
It's true: Every time you kill an elk, you're saving some cow's life.