“What actually happened was that Rolling Stone paid me fifteen hundred dollars for the use of all the drawings - about twenty four of them - and then offered to buy the originals from me, which my agent urged 'was a good move!'. He sold the whole damn treasure trove to Jann Wenner for the princely sum of sixty dollars per drawing. I rue the day I let him convince me.” WholeUseMovingFourHappenedHundredStonesPaidTwentiesOriginalsDollarsDrawingTreasureAgentsDamnConvinceSixtyFifteenRollingRolling StonesRue Author:Ralph Steadman
“it will be objected that a constantly increasing population makes resistance and conservation a hopeless battle. this is true. unless a way is found to stabilize the nation's population, the parks can not be saved. or anything else worth a damn. wilderness preservation, like a hundred other good causes, will be forgotten under the overwhelming pressure of a struggle for mere survival and sanity in a completely urbanized, completely industrialized, ever more crowded environment. for my own part i would rather take my chances in a thermonuclear war than live in such a world.” WorldWayWarFoundNationsCausesChanceMy OwnStruggleEnvironmentBattleSurvivalHundredPressureMereForgottenPopulationSavedResistanceDamnParksWildernessHopelessOverwhelmingSanityConservationCan NotPreservationCrowdedNuclear WarGood Causes Book:Desert Solitaire Source: Desert Solitaire
“People apparently only read mystery stories of any length. With mysteries, the longer the better, and people will read any damn thing. But the indulgent, 800-page books that were written a hundred years ago are just not going to be written anymore, and people need to get used to that.” PeopleNeedsYearsBookStoriesUsedWrittenMysteryPagesHundredYears AgoDamnLengthDamn Things Author:Cormac McCarthy
“The Environmental Protection Agency is conducting a seven-hundred-thousand-dollar study to see if Alaskan trees are polluting Oregon forests. You can tell Republicans are in power. Pollution? It's those damn trees.” IfsStudyTreeRepublicanThousandHundredDollarsEnvironmentalSevenProtectionForestsDamnAgencyPollutionConductingEnvironmental ProtectionOregonAlaskans Author:Jay Leno