Mental degeneracy may be caused by lead poisoning. Or by a poor dip in the gene pool.

I suppose each of us has his own fantasy of how he wants to die. I would like to go out in a blaze of glory, myself, or maybe simply disappear someday, far out in the heart of the wilderness I love, all by myself, alone with the Universe and whatever God may happen to be looking on. Disappear - and never return. That's my fantasy.

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

The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.

There comes a time in the life of us all when we must lay aside our books or put down our tools and leave our place of work and walk forth on the road to meet the enemy face-to-face. Once and for all and at last

The Latino military fare badly when they stumble into war with the gringos. But in the torture, murder, and massacre of their own people, they have always performed with brilliance and elan.

In marriage, the occasional catastrophic crisis is easier to manage than the daily routine.