"Our disrespect for thinking: someone sitting in a chair, gazing out of a window blankly, always described as ‘doing nothing’."

"In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted."

"To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god."

"Everything happens as if there were order, reason, logic in the world, whereas everything is actually fortuitous, accidental, apparent. The universe is only the kaleidoscope revolving in the mind of the being who is said to be thinking, who is himself a causeless curiosity, a fortuitous conscious of the great fortuity, and amusing himself with it as long as the phenomenon of his vision lasts."

"Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you."

"One final paragraph of advice: 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. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it’s still here. So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space. Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to the body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this much; I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound men and women with their hearts in a safe deposit box, and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this; You will outlive the bastards."