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- Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.
- Cold morning on Aztec Peak Fire Lookout. First, build fire in old stove. Second, start coffee. Then, heat up last night's pork chops and spinach…
- Tofu and futons. The adepts of Orientalism seem to spend most of their lives reclining. They can't quite summon the energy to crawl up onto…
- I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of Central…
- When a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up an honest trade…
- Susan Sontag: What she really wanted, throughout her career, was to grow up to be a Frenchman.
- Shakespeare wrote great poetry and preposterous plays. Who really cares, for example, which petty tyrant rules Milan? Or who succeeds to the throne of Denmark?…
- In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.
- Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging…
- The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while.
- Little boys love machines; girls adore horses; grown-up men and women like to walk.
- Alaska is our biggest, buggiest, boggiest state. Texas remains our largest unfrozen state. But mountainous Utah, if ironed out flat, would take up more space…
- What is truth? I don't know and I'm sorry I brought it up.
- Desert springtime, with flowers popping up all over the place, trees leafing out, streams gushing down from the mountains. Great time of year for hiking,…
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