I suppose no man becomes a pocket hunter by first intention.

For all the toll the desert takes of a man it gives compensations, deep breaths, deep sleep, and the communion of the stars.

Man is not himself only...He is all that he sees; all that flows to him from a thousand sources...He is the land, the lift of its mountain lines, the reach of its valleys.

Genius . . . arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena.

This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough

Death by starvation is slow.

Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas

As I walk .. as I walk .. / The universe .. is walking with me .. / Beautifully .. it walks before me .... / Beautifully .. on every side .... / As I walk .. I walk with beauty.

Over the tops of it, beginning to dusk under a young white moon, trailed a wavering ghost of smoke, and at the end of it I came upon the Pocket Hunter making a dry camp in the friendly scrub.

What women have to stand on squarely [is] not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing it in some other way.

The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion.

I consider C++ the most significant technical hazard to the survival of your project and do so without apologies.

It doesn't always turn out. It's not always a happy ending when sometimes you say things that you think, and it goes against the grain of the larger group.

Make movies. Don't make videos. Videos are evil.

I AM a male chauvinist. Who's been saying otherwise?

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.

It's just to let the other one know it can be replaced.

It is a very honest world, our work. I think you cannot fake anything.

I only wish my health issues to be open to the public in the hope that I can educate others.

Thus, the more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known, and conversely.