@abbeybot.bsky.socialI am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry and music in our technology, a beauty as touching as that of eagle, moss campion, raven or yonder limestone boulder shining under the Arctic sun.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialA man without a horse is like a man without a weapon: stunted and naked.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialI approach nature with a surly ill-will, daring Her to make trouble.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialIs there a God? Who knows? Is there an angry unicorn on the dark side of the moon?
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe more corrupt a society, the more numerous its laws.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialI despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialGovernment should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialSimplicity is always a virtue.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialOne 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.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialRemaining silent about the destruction of nature is an endorsement of that destruction.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialI 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.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialA writer must be hard to live with: when not working he is miserable, and when he is working he is obsessed.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialSo 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.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialI 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.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialGod is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialOne thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialEvery moment is precious. And precarious.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialA 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.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialMy books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialOne 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.