If you're never ridden a fast horse at a dead run across a desert valley at dawn, be of good cheer: You've only missed out on one half of life.

What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.

If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one ordinary human child.

A pretty girl can do no wrong.

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

I’m tired of doing what I don’t want to do to live the way I don’t want to live.

Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.