I have written much about many good places. But the best places of all, I have never mentioned.

I am an enemy of the State. But isn't everyone?

I am happy to be a regional writer. My region is the American West, old Mexico, West Virginia, New York, Europe, Australia, the human heart, and the male groin.

It may be true that there are no atheists in foxholes. But you don't find many Christians there, either. Or, about as many of one as the other.

Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and debris.

It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written.

I’m tired of doing what I don’t want to do to live the way I don’t want to live.