Alaska is our biggest, buggiest, boggiest state. Texas remains our largest unfrozen state. But mountainous Utah, if ironed out flat, would take up more space on a map than either.

It's all still there in heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure-they will grow larger, sweeter, lovelier in the days and years to come.

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn sight better.

It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive.

One single act of defiance against power, against the State that seems omnipotent but is not, transforms and transfigures the human personality. At least for a time. For a while. Perhaps that is enough.

The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe -- fear and awe of the State.