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.

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.

Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind.

All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.

If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.

In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.

Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.