No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.
The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event one is always bewildered by their simplicity their grandeur of design and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
When you are facing the wilderness on your own you have a totally different attitude to someone who works in government or who has a monthly cheque.
Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
When it comes to raising civilized kids there are no hard rules but there are two things on which most parents agree: Boys are generally wilder than girls and adolescents are wilder than kids of any other age. If you've got an adolescent boy you're in the sweet spot for trouble.
There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of.