The function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage into socially acceptable forms of combat. A temporary substitute for war; for nationalism; identification with something bigger than the self.

Belief in God? An afterlife? I believe in rock: this apodictic rock beneath my feet.

Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air.

I want my body to help fertilize the growth of a cactus or cliff rose or sagebrush or tree.

The world is what it is, no less and no more, and therein lies its entire and sufficient meaning.

Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure.

The one great gift to humankind from our nuclear physicists has been the nuclear bomb. How can we ever thank them?