All serious writers want the obvious rewards: fame, money, women, love -- and most of all, an audience!

I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of Central Park, a Morgan police horse screaming in its jaws. We can never have enough of nature.

Life is hard? True - but let's love it anyhow, though it breaks every bone in our bodies.

No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as that Glen Canyon Dam at Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County.

We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empire—a crackpot machine—that the specialists cannot comprehend and the managers cannot manage. Which is, furthermore, devouring world resources at an exponential rate. We are, most of us, dependent employees. …Edward Abbey (1927-1989)

A man without a horse is like a man without a weapon: stunted and naked.

But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.