Every moment is precious. And precarious.

But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.

I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.

The absurd vanity of metaphysicians who like to imagine that they create the world by thinking about it.

Civilization, like an airplane in flight, survives only as it keeps going forward.

One day in Dipstick, Nebraska, or Landfill, Oklahoma, is worth more to me than an eternity in Dante's plastic Paradiso, or Yeats's gold-plated Byzantium.

I want my body to help fertilize the growth of a cactus or cliff rose or sagebrush or tree.