This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.

This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.
A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles.
The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space.
The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while.
Music begins where words leave off. Music expresses the inexpressible. If there is a Kingdom of Heaven, it lies in music.
There is no lack of water here unless you try to establish a city where no city should be.
There has never been a day in my life when I was not in love.
The writer concerned more with technique than truth becomes a technician, not an artist.
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.
[Concerning river runners:] If we were going into war again I can't think of any I'd rather have on our side. I mean, all of these good men and women. And if they were on the other side I'd join the other side.
One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.
My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.
In the world of words, one of my best-loved tribes is the diatribe.
Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.
Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.
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.
A man without a horse is like a man without a weapon: stunted and naked.
My job is to save the fucking wilderness. I don't know anything else worth saving.
Life imitates art -- but badly.
Alaska is our biggest, buggiest, boggiest state. Texas remains our largest unfrozen state. But mountainous Utah, if ironed out flat, would take up more space on a map than either.