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

I, too, believe in fidelity. But how can I be true to one woman without being false to all the others?

Original sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all around us-if only we were worthy of it.

We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery.

John Updike: our greatest suburban chic-boutique man of letters. A smug and fatal complacency has stunted his growth beyond hope of surgical repair. Not enough passion in his collected works to generate steam in a beer can. Nevertheless, he is considered by some critics to be America's finest *living* author: Hold a chilled mirror to his lips and you will see, presently, a fine and dewy moisture condensing -- like a faery breath! -- upon the glass.

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

One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word.