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.

A drink a day keeps the shrink away.

Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.

Why must love always be accompanied--sooner or later--by sorrow and pain? Why not? Because pure bliss is for pure idiots.

All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.

Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as mother love or cherry pie.

Grown men do not need leaders.