The ever-rising cost of living: Someday soon, the corporate technicians will be locking meters on our noses and charging us a royalty on the air we breathe.

Only a fool would leave the enjoyment of rainbows to the opticians. Or give the science of optics the last word on the matter.

There's nothing so obscene and depressing as an American Christmas.

Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?)

I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is worth saving.

Our contemporary Tories prefer the term 'ordered liberty' to 'freedom'. The word 'freedom' scares them; it has too much of a paleolithic ring to it.

Rocks, like louseworts and snail darters and pupfish and 3rdworld black, lesbian, feminist, militant poets, have rights, too. Especially the right to exist.