Rocks, like louseworts and snail darters and pupfish and 3rdworld black, lesbian, feminist, militant poets, have rights, too. Especially the right to exist.

May your rivers flow without end... down into a desert of red rock, blue mesas, domes and pinnacles and grottos of endless stone, and down again into a deep vast ancient unknown chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs... where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you-beyond that next turning of the canyon walls.

This is the most beautiful place on Earth. There are many such places. Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind the image of the ideal place, the right place, the one true home, known or unknown, actual or visionary.

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

The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.

Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.

Music is a savage art, a measured madness.