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

Every writer has his favorite coterie of enemies: Mine is the East Coast literati -- those prep school playmates and their Ivy League colleagues.

Platitude: a statement that denies by implication what it explicitly affirms.

Why I oppose the nuclear-arms race: I prefer the human race.

Water, water, water....There is no shortage of water in the desert but exactly the right amount , a perfect ratio of water to rock, water to sand, insuring that wide free open, generous spacing among plants and animals, homes and towns and cities, which makes the arid West so different from any other part of the nation. There is no lack of water here unless you try to establish a city where no city should be.

Music clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart.

I believe in nothing that I cannot touch, kiss, embrace.... The rest is only hearsay.