A drink a day keeps the shrink away. Votes: 2
The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chain saws. Votes: 0
In marriage, the occasional catastrophic crisis is easier to manage than the daily routine. Votes: 0
Are people more important than the grizzly bear? Only from the point of view of some people. Votes: 0
Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter. Votes: 0
The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.... Votes: 0
Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite? Votes: 0
From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm. Votes: 0
It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave. Votes: 0
A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes. Votes: 0
Taxation: how the sheep are shorn. Votes: 0
Anywhere, anytime, I'd sacrifice the finest nuance for a laugh, the most elegant trope for a smile. Votes: 0
Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell. Votes: 0
Grown men do not need leaders. Votes: 0
Only the half-mad are wholly alive. Votes: 0
Freedom begins between the ears. Votes: 0
Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness. Votes: 0
God is love? Not bloody likely. Votes: 0
Not all questions can be answered. Votes: 0
An empty man is full of himself. Votes: 0
I stand for what I stand on. Votes: 0
Saving the world was merely a hobby. My *vocation* has been that of inspector of desert water holes. Votes: 0
I want my body to help fertilize the growth of a cactus or cliff rose or sagebrush or tree. Votes: 0
Whatever we cannot understand easily we call God; this saves wear and tear on the brain tissues. Votes: 0
Nature, like Miamonides said, is mainly a good place to throw beer cans on Sunday afternoons. Votes: 0
Susan Sontag: What she really wanted, throughout her career, was to grow up to be a Frenchman. Votes: 0
Wilderness begins in the human mind. Votes: 0
The world is what it is, no less and no more, and therein lies its entire and sufficient meaning. Votes: 0
A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse. Votes: 0
The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while. Votes: 0
If there's anything I hate, it's the vibraphone. And the cha-cha-cha. And Latin rhythms generally. Votes: 0
The ideal kitchen-sink novel: Throw in everything but the kitchen sink. Then add the kitchen sink. Votes: 0
I've never yet read a review of one of my own books that I couldn't have written much better myself. Votes: 0
Life: another day, another dolor. Votes: 0
The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations. Votes: 0
I have written much about many good places. But the best places of all, I have never mentioned. Votes: 0
Simplicity is always a virtue. Votes: 0
I must confess that I know nothing whatsoever about true underlying reality, never having met any. Votes: 0
Life imitates art -- but badly. Votes: 0
Among politicians and businessmen, *Pragmatism* is the current term for 'To hell with our children.' Votes: 0
There are no vacant lots in nature. Votes: 0
A pretty girl can do no wrong. Votes: 0
Democracy -- rule by the people -- sounds like a fine thing; we should try it sometime in America. Votes: 0
How can I be so evil? It ain't easy. Votes: 0
Life is cruel? Compared to what? Votes: 0
The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live. And we pay them for it. Votes: 0
I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere. Votes: 0