Girls: I never wanted them all. Just all the ones I wanted.

The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chainsaws. It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend and preserve it. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

Not all questions can be answered.

The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.

Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.

The response to my books from my East Coast friends has been wildly various, running the gamut from 'bad' to 'very bad.' (Is there another gamut?)

It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive.