Poetry -- even bad poetry -- may be our final hope.

All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.

The "terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.

Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science.

Filling out the form: Race? Human. Religion? Paiute. Occupation? Criminal anarchy. Hobbies? Survival with honor.

Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get them read and talked about.

In the afternoon I watch the clouds drift past the bald peak of Mount Tukuhnikivats. (Someone has to do it.)