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

The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chain saws.

Guns don't kill people; people kill people. Of course, people with guns kill more people. But that's only natural. It's hard. But it's fair.

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)

Why do I live in the desert? Because the desert is the *locus Dei*.

My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.

Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless.