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.

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.

Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in.

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

Is the Archbishop's blessing any more meaningful than the Politician's handshake? The come, they go, with bigger things than us on their minds.

Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.

We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery.