Water, water, water....There is no shortage of water in the desert but exactly the right amount , a perfect ratio of water to rock, water to sand, insuring that wide free open, generous spacing among plants and animals, homes and towns and cities, which makes the arid West so different from any other part of the nation. There is no lack of water here unless you try to establish a city where no city should be.

Women: We cannot love them all. But we must try.

Why I oppose the nuclear-arms race: I prefer the human race.

My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.

It's true: Every time you kill an elk, you're saving some cow's life.

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.

The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition.