That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.

The function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage into socially acceptable forms of combat. A temporary substitute for war; for nationalism; identification with something bigger than the self.

Passion, sexual passion, may lead to marriage, but cannot sustain marriage. The purpose of marriage is the raising of children, for which patience, not passion, is the necessary foundation.

My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.

Salome had but seven veils; the artist has a thousand.

When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.

The world is full of burled and gnarly knobs on which you can hang a metaphysical system. If you must.