It is the difference between men and women, not the sameness, that creates the tension and the delight.

The national parks belong to everyone. To the people. To all of us. The government keeps saying so and maybe, in this one case at least, the government is telling the truth. Hard to believe, but possible.

So I write mainly for the fun of it, the hell of it, the duty of it. I enjoy writing and will probably be a scribbler on my dying day, sprawled on some stony trail halfway between two dry waterholes.

The Latino military fare badly when they stumble into war with the gringos. But in the torture, murder, and massacre of their own people, they have always performed with brilliance and elan.

I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is worth saving.

The axiom of conditioned repetition, like the binomial theorem, is nothing but a piece of insolence.

In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.