What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is the ruin of … - Edward Abbey

Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and powerful.

Mountains complement desert as desert compliments city, as wilderness compliments and completes civilization.

A writer must be hard to live with: when not working he is miserable, and when he is working he is obsessed. Or so it is with me. Thus my writing life consists of spells of languor alternating with fits and spasms of mad typing. At all times, though, I keep a journal, a record book, and most everything begins in the form of notes scribbled down on the pages of that journal.