I believe in nothing that I cannot touch, kiss, embrace.... The rest is only hearsay.

King Arthur and his armored goons of the Round Table functioned as the Politburo of a slave state: Camelot. Of all who have written on the Matter of Arthur, from Malory to White, only Mark Twain understood this. But Mark Twain was a great writer.

I have written much about many good places. But the best places of all, I have never mentioned.

Style: There is something in too much verbal felicity (as in Joyce or Nabokov or Borges) that can betray the writer into technique for the sake of technique.

It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy.

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

If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.