A rancher is a farmer who farms the public lands with a herd of four-legged lawn mowers.

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!

How to Avoid Pleurisy: Never make love to a girl named Candy on the tailgate of a half-ton Ford pickup during a chill rain in April out on Grandview Point in San Juan County, Utah.

We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.

A shelf of classics for our young adults: Tolkien, Hesse, Casteneda, Kerouac, Salinger, Tom Robbins, and _The Last Whole Earth Catalog_.

Is it possible to grow wiser without knowing it? One hopes so. We all hope so.

Susan Sontag: What she really wanted, throughout her career, was to grow up to be a Frenchman.