Simplicity is always a virtue.

Simplicity is always a virtue.
One must be reasonable in one's demands on life. For myself, all that I ask is: (1) accurate information; (2) coherent knowledge; (3) deep understanding; (4) infinite loving wisdom; (5) no more kidney stones, please.
Remaining silent about the destruction of nature is an endorsement of that destruction.
I look forward to the day when all river runners carry, as part of their standard equipment, a surface-to-air missile launcher armed with heat-seeking missiles.
A writer must be hard to live with: when not working he is miserable, and when he is working he is obsessed.
So I write mainly for the fun of it, the hell of it, the duty of it. I enjoy writing and will probably be a scribbler on my dying day, sprawled on some stony trail halfway between two dry waterholes.
I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them.
God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.
One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.
Every moment is precious. And precarious.
A leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the whip, the power of fear.
My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.
One must be reasonable in one's demands on life. For myself, all that I ask is: (1) accurate information; (2) coherent knowledge; (3) deep understanding; (4) infinite loving wisdom; (5) no more kidney stones, please.
Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height.
Chastity is more a state of mind than of anatomy.
The longest journey begins with a single step, not with the turn of an ignition key. That's the best thing about walking, the journey itself. It doesn't much matter whether you get where you're going or not. You'll get there anyway.
One breath of juniper smoke, like the perfume of sagebrush after rain, evokes in magical catalysis, like certain music, the space and light and clarity and piercing strangeness of the American West. Long may it burn.
We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may not ever need to go there.
Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.
Of all bores, the worst is the sparkling bore.