A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.
In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.
Only a fool is astonished by the foolishness of mankind.
Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record to truth of our time, and, of course, to promote esthetic bliss.