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

In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.

A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.

The majority of American writers today have chosen passive non-resistance to things as they are, producing sloughs of poetry about their personal angst and anomie, cascades of short stories and rivers of novels obsessed with the nuances of domestic relationships - suburban hanky-panky - chic boutique shopping mall literary soap opera. When they do speak out on matters of controversy they attack not the evils of our time but fellow writers who may insist on complaining.

If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.

What's the difference between the Lone Ranger and God? There really is a Lone Ranger.