God bless America. Let's try to save some of it.

Narrow-minded provincialism: Sad to say but true - I am more interested in the mountain lions of Utah, the wild pigs of Arizona, than I am in the fate of all the Arabs of Araby, all the Wogs of Hindustan, all the Ethiopes of Abyssinia.

There comes a point, in literary objectivity, when the author's self- effacement is hard to distinguish from moral cowardice.

Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today.

May your rivers flow without end... down into a desert of red rock, blue mesas, domes and pinnacles and grottos of endless stone, and down again into a deep vast ancient unknown chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs... where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you-beyond that next turning of the canyon walls.

In both metaphysics and art, honesty is the best policy. Keep it clean.

It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written.