And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.

The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life forms. Love flowers best in openness and freedom.

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

Jack Kerouac, like a sick refrigerator, worked too hard at keeping cool and died on his mama's lap from alcohol and infantilism.

There is a wine called Easy Days and Mellow Nights, well-known on the outskirts of the Navajo reservation. It is an economical wine, fortified with the best of intentions, and I recommend it to every serious wino.

Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.

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