The author: an imaginary person who writes real books.

I love America because it is a confused, chaotic mess - and I hope we can keep it this way for at least another thousand years. The permissive society is the free society.

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.

Humility is a virtue when you have no other.

Life is hard? True - but let's love it anyhow, though it breaks every bone in our bodies.

New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive anywhere, why live in New York?

My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.