Why do I live in the desert? Because the desert is the *locus Dei*.

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

Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as mother love or cherry pie.

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

My computer tells me that in twenty-five years there will be no more computers.

I do not believe in personal immortality; it seems so unnecessary. Show me one man who deserves to live forever.

I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.