Jesus don't walk on water no more; his feet leak.

Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.

From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.

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.

I would prefer to write about everything; what else is there? But one must be selective.

Literary critics, like a herd of cows or a school of fish, always face in the same direction, obeying that love for unity that every critic requires.

The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chain saws.