Not all questions can be answered.

Defiance is beautiful. The defiance of power, especially great or overwhelming power, exalts and glorifies the rebel.

Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.

There comes a point, in literary objectivity, when the author's self- effacement is hard to distinguish from moral cowardice.

What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

The sexual revolution transformed the American West: Now even cowboys can get laid.

In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth.