Why administrators are respected and schoolteachers are not: An administrator is paid a lot for doing very little, while a teacher is paid very little for doing a lot.

To be alive is to take risks; to be always safe and secure is death.

In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.

The ideal kitchen-sink novel: Throw in everything but the kitchen sink. Then add the kitchen sink.

My computer tells me that in twenty-five years there will be no more computers.

Wilderness. The word itself is music.

A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society.