In both metaphysics and art, honesty is the best policy. Keep it clean.

The longest journey begins with a single step, not with a turn of the ignition key.

It may be true that there are no atheists in foxholes. But you don't find many Christians there, either. Or, about as many of one as the other.

I am happy to be a regional writer. My region is the American West, old Mexico, West Virginia, New York, Europe, Australia, the human heart, and the male groin.

most of my wandering in the desert i've done alone. not so much from choice as from necessity - i generally prefer to go into places where no one else wants to go. i find that in contemplating the natural world my pleasure is greater if there are not too many others contemplating it with me, at the same time.

The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.

Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.