Simplicity is always a virtue.

Simplicity is always a virtue.
If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality.
In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.
I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound men and women with their hearts in a safe deposit box, and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this; You will outlive the bastards.
The "Terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.
But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.
Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.
My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture.
Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: form of rape by the State.
There are no vacant lots in nature.
Representative government has broken down. Our politicians represent not the people who vote for them but the commercial interests who finance their election campaigns. We have the best politicians that money can buy.
Home is where, when you have to go there, you probably shouldn't.
It's all still there in heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure-they will grow larger, sweeter, lovelier in the days and years to come.
From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.
Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind.
It's all still there in heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure-they will grow larger, sweeter, lovelier in the days and years to come.
My job is to save the fucking wilderness. I don't know anything else worth saving.
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.
If people persist in trespassing upon the grizzlies' territory, we must accept the fact that the grizzlies, from time to time, will harvest a few trespassers.
He recalled Dr. Sarvis' favorite apothegm: When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.