Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.

There are circumstances in which suicide presents a viable option; a workable alternative; the only sensible solution.

Democracy -- rule by the people -- sounds like a fine thing; we should try it sometime in America.

It is the difference between men and women, not the sameness, that creates the tension and the delight.

Wilderness. The word itself is music.

The only thing left worth saving is wilderness.

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