Let the people walk. Or ride horses, bicycles, mules, wild pigs-anything-but keep the automobiles and the motorcycles and all their motorized relatives out. We have agreed not to drive our automobiles into cathedrals, concert halls, art museums, legislative assemblies, private bedrooms and other sanctums of our culture; we should treat our national parks with the same deference, for they, too, are holy places.

And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.

In history-as-politics, the 'future' is that vacuum in time waiting to be filled with the antics of statesmen.

Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.

Trout fishing. One must be a stickler for proper form. Use nothing but #4 blasting caps, or a hand grenade, if handy, or at a pool well-lined with stone, one blast from a .44 magnum will bring a few stunned brookies quietly to the surface.

I am happy to be a regional writer. My region is the American West, old Mexico, West Virginia, New York, Europe, Australia, the human heart, and the male groin.

Grand opera is a form of musical entertainment for people who hate music.