Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.

What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.

Three words remain that can yet stir the blood of man: the word 'rebellion'; the word 'revolt'; the word 'revolution'.

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

Some people write to please, to soothe, to console. Others to provoke, to challenge, to exasperate and infuriate. I've always found the second approach the more pleasing.

The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while.

Is the Archbishop's blessing any more meaningful than the Politician's handshake? The come, they go, with bigger things than us on their minds.