There is nothing inherently wrong with a brain in your nineties. If you keep it fed and interested, you'll find it lasts you very well.

There is always the need to carry on.

There are no other Everglades in the world.

There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth; remote, never wholly known. Nothing anywhere else is like them.

All we need, really, is a change from a near frigid to a tropical attitude of mind.

You have to stand up for some things in this world.

Life should be lived so vividly and so intensely that thoughts of another life, or of a longer life, are not necessary.

Child welfare ought really to cover all sorts of topics, such as better water and sanitation and good roads, and clean streets and public parks and playgrounds.

The Everglades is a test. If we pass it, we may get to keep the planet.

I'll talk about the Everglades at the drop of a hat.

Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades.

I wondered how many other things had flown past me into death. Perhaps many. Perhaps I was flying past them, like the grim reaper, signaling the end. This would explain so much.

I killed a couple of people, ” Scooter said. “Wanna play cards?

I've never been so sure about the rest of my life than I am in this moment. This girl is the rest of my life.

Just as a random thing, because I can't choose a favorite song ever, I'll go for Minnie Riperton's "Expecting".

Remember that the six most expensive words in business are: 'We've always done it that way'

Neither privacy nor publicity is dead, but technology will continue to make a mess of both.

Whatever we'll be forced to do later, we should be doing now.

The cowards never start and the weak die along the way.

Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.

We haven't figured out a way to get sensors that can discriminate between decoys and warheads. The technology doesn't exist yet.