In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.

Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.

There is a deep, abiding, unshakable satisfaction in a life of complete failure.

I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them.

Filling out the form: Race? Human. Religion? Paiute. Occupation? Criminal anarchy. Hobbies? Survival with honor.

The New Age orgy: The flesh was willing but the spirit's weak.

Life imitates art -- but badly.