Chastity is more a state of mind than of anatomy.

Chastity is more a state of mind than of anatomy.
God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.
Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful.
What's the difference between the Lone Ranger and God? There really is a Lone Ranger.
I 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.
A man without a horse is like a man without a weapon: stunted and naked.
I approach nature with a surly ill-will, daring Her to make trouble.
Is there a God? Who knows? Is there an angry unicorn on the dark side of the moon?
The more corrupt a society, the more numerous its laws.
I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.
Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.
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.