But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.

Music begins where words leave off. Music expresses the inexpressible. If there is a Kingdom of Heaven, it lies in music.

Poetry -- even bad poetry -- may be our final hope.

The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else.

I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase to live like men.