The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life forms. Love flowers best in openness and freedom.
The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.
Beauty is only skin deep; ugliness goes all the way through.
Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.
What's the difference between the Lone Ranger and God? There really is a Lone Ranger.
If you feel that you must suffer, then plan your suffering carefully -- as you choose your dreams, as you conceive your ancestors.