My own ambition, my deepest and truest ambition, is to find within myself someday, somehow, the ability to do likewise, to do NOTHING - and find it enough.
The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.
I have been a lucky man. But someone has to be.
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
As Mark Twain said, 'I love Wagner -- if only they'd cut out all that damned singing!'
I would like to evoke the sense of wonder and magic in the reader but without invoking the mystical, the supernatural or the transcendent.