“The world doesn't owe anyone a living—including veterans.”

“Darling, the world doesn't owe you anything.”

“The world owes me a living'--that's passive. 'I owe the world and God a life'--that's active.”

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”

“the thing i found offensive, the thing i hated about mohican-mountain-makers, gill-netters, poachers, whalehunters, strip-miners, herbicide-spewers, dam-erectors, nuclear-reactor-builders or anyone who lusted after flesh, meat, mineral, tree, pelt and dollar - including, first and foremost, myself - was the smug ingratitude, the attitude that assumed the world and its creatures owed us everything we could catch, shoot, tear out, alter, plunder, devour...and we owed the world nothing in return.”

“Don't go around thinking the world owes you a living. It was here first.”