The writer concerned more with technique than truth becomes a technician, not an artist.

What did Jesus say to the headwaiter at the Last Supper? 'Separate checks, please.'

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.

If you feel that you must suffer, then plan your suffering carefully -- as you choose your dreams, as you conceive your ancestors.

Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed.

As between the skulking and furtive poacher, who hunts for the sake of meat, and the honest gentleman shooter, who kills for the pleasure of sport, I find the former a higher type of humanity.

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