A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be - will be - a human zoo. A high-tech slum.

Grown men do not need leaders.

Susan Sontag: What she really wanted, throughout her career, was to grow up to be a Frenchman.

Salome had but seven veils; the artist has a thousand.

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

When the writer has done his best, he then should proceed to do his second best.

Women truly are better than men. Otherwise, they'd be intolerable.