Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person.
Beauty is only skin deep; ugliness goes all the way through.
Trout fishing. One must be a stickler for proper form. Use nothing but #4 blasting caps, or a hand grenade, if handy, or at a pool well-lined with stone, one blast from a .44 magnum will bring a few stunned brookies quietly to the surface.
Married couples who quarrel bitterly every day may really need each other as deeply as those who appear to be desperately in love.
I'm a fastidious sort of fellow, fond of watermelon and buckbrush nuts.
Poor Dimitri Shostakovich: In the Soviet Union, he was condemned as being too radical; in the West, for being too conservative. He could please no one but the musical public. He revenged himself on both by writing a short piece called 'March of the Soviet Police.'
Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.
King Arthur and his armored goons of the Round Table functioned as the Politburo of a slave state: Camelot. Of all who have written on the Matter of Arthur, from Malory to White, only Mark Twain understood this. But Mark Twain was a great writer.
Girls: I never wanted them all. Just all the ones I wanted.
My computer tells me that in twenty-five years there will be no more computers.
Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in.
I believe that there is a kind of poetry, even a kind of truth, in simple fact.
In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth.
Art, science, philosophy, religion -- each offers at best only a crude simplification of actual living experience.
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.
We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.
How to Avoid Pleurisy: Never make love to a girl named Candy on the tailgate of a half-ton Ford pickup during a chill rain in April out on Grandview Point in San Juan County, Utah.
In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students.
What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love.
In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.
Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy.
Passion, sexual passion, may lead to marriage, but cannot sustain marriage. The purpose of marriage is the raising of children, for which patience, not passion, is the necessary foundation.
The axiom of conditioned repetition, like the binomial theorem, is nothing but a piece of insolence.
A journey into the wilderness is the freest, cheapest, most nonprivileged of pleasures. Anyone with two legs and the price of a pair of army surplus combat boots may enter.
Desert springtime, with flowers popping up all over the place, trees leafing out, streams gushing down from the mountains. Great time of year for hiking, camping, exploring, sleeping under the new moon and the old stars. At dawn and at evening we hear the coyotes howling with excitement—mating season.
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