In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.

Might does not make right but it sure makes what is.

The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chainsaws. It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend and preserve it. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature.

I would like to evoke the sense of wonder and magic in the reader but without invoking the mystical, the supernatural or the transcendent.

If people persist in trespassing upon the grizzlies' territory, we must accept the fact that the grizzlies, from time to time, will harvest a few trespassers.

Platitude: a statement that denies by implication what it explicitly affirms.