In the first place you can't see anything from a car; you've got to get out of the goddamned contraption and walk, better yet crawl, on hands and knees, over the sandstone and through the thornbush and cactus. When traces of blood begin to mark your trail you'll begin to see something, maybe. Probably not.

The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life forms. Love flowers best in openness and freedom.

Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.

I wait. Now the night flows back, the mighty stillness embraces and includes me; I can see the stars again and the world of starlight. I am twenty miles or more from the nearest fellow human, but instead of loneliness I feel loveliness. Loveliness and a quiet exultation.

But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.

Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.

Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.