Not all questions can be answered.
Jesus don't walk on water no more; his feet leak.
We know this apodictic rock beneath our feet. That dogmatic sun above our heads. The world of dreams, the agony of love and the foresight of death. That is all we know. And all we need to know? Challenge that statement.
Are people more important than the grizzly bear? Only from the point of view of some people.
My own ambition, my deepest and truest ambition, is to find within myself someday, somehow, the ability to do likewise, to do NOTHING - and find it enough.
If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.
Defiance is beautiful. The defiance of power, especially great or overwhelming power, exalts and glorifies the rebel.
Christian theology: nothing so grotesque could possibly be true.
The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy. Not for nothing was the revolver called an "equalizer."
Don't talk to me about other worlds, separate realities, lost continents or invisible realms -- I know where I belong. Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.
The rebel is doomed to a violent death. The rest of us can look forward to sedated expiration in a coma inside an oxygen tent, with tubes inserted in every bodily orifice.
Women truly are better than men. Otherwise, they'd be intolerable.
Great art is never perfect; perfect art is never great.
There is a fine art to making enemies and it requires diligent cultivation. It's not as easy as it looks.
Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure.
Longevity, like intelligence and good looks and health and strength of character, is largely a matter of genetic heritage. Choose your parents with care.
One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.
Grand opera is a form of musical entertainment for people who hate music.
You can't belay a man who's falling in love.
We live in a society in which it is normal to be sick; and sick to be abnormal.
I thought of the wilderness we had left behind us, open to sea and sky, joyous in its plenitude and simplicity, perfect yet vulnerable, unaware of what is coming, defended by nothing, guarded by no one.
Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging up mountains, slogging through swamps, rowing down rivers. The indoor life is the next best thing to premature burial.
There never was a good war or a bad revolution.
I'm in favor of animal liberation. Why? Because I'm an animal.
There is a deep, abiding, unshakable satisfaction in a life of complete failure.
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