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

By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.

We live in a society in which it is normal to be sick; and sick to be abnormal.

All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.

In the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood.

Roosters: The cry of the male chicken is the most barbaric yawp in all of nature.

An empty man is full of himself.