Places: a cold, bleak, lonely day on the rim at Muley Point, Utah. And the heart-cracking loveliness of the blood-smeared, bitter, incomprehensible slaughterhouse of a world.

Life imitates art -- but badly.

War: First day in the U.S. Army, the government placed a Bible in my left hand, a bayonet in the other.

Rocks, like louseworts and snail darters and pupfish and 3rdworld black, lesbian, feminist, militant poets, have rights, too. Especially the right to exist.

A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.

Cowboys make better lovers: Ask any cow.

A man without a horse is like a man without a weapon: stunted and naked.