My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.

I believe in nothing that I cannot touch, kiss, embrace.... The rest is only hearsay.

Is there a God? Who knows? Is there an angry unicorn on the dark side of the moon?

And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.

Narrow-minded provincialism: Sad to say but true - I am more interested in the mountain lions of Utah, the wild pigs of Arizona, than I am in the fate of all the Arabs of Araby, all the Wogs of Hindustan, all the Ethiopes of Abyssinia.

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

We live in a society in which it is normal to be sick; and sick to be abnormal.