Girls, like flowers, bloom but once. But once is enough.

No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as that Glen Canyon Dam at Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County.

If people persist in trespassing upon the grizzlies' territory, we must accept the fact that the grizzlies, from time to time, will harvest a few trespassers.

Is it possible to grow wiser without knowing it? One hopes so. We all hope so.

Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.

We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism -- a Mongoloid metaphysic.

In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.