I write because I can remember and to keep those memories alive. I write for pleasure. I write because I must.

Much as I admired the elegance of physical theories, which at that time geology wholly lacked, I preferred a life in the woods to one in the laboratory.

Don't wait for things to happen by luck, cause its an uncertain thing anyway.

Discipline is the servant of inspiration.

You accuse me of black marketing, but which of you has not slept with me?

Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.

A half-starved limping government, always moving upon crutches and tottering at every step.

If I was on an airplane, the people in coach would know who I am. But no one in first class would know.

People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.

I do not understand; I pause; I examine.

I can call spirits from the vasty deep.