Genius . . . arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena.

For all the toll the desert takes of a man it gives compensations, deep breaths, deep sleep, and the communion of the stars.

Man is not himself only...He is all that he sees; all that flows to him from a thousand sources...He is the land, the lift of its mountain lines, the reach of its valleys.

This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough

Death by starvation is slow.

Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas

As I walk .. as I walk .. / The universe .. is walking with me .. / Beautifully .. it walks before me .... / Beautifully .. on every side .... / As I walk .. I walk with beauty.

Over the tops of it, beginning to dusk under a young white moon, trailed a wavering ghost of smoke, and at the end of it I came upon the Pocket Hunter making a dry camp in the friendly scrub.

What women have to stand on squarely [is] not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing it in some other way.

The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion.

The real wonder is not that one man should be a genius, but that every man should not be.

He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.

... I have just experienced the most passionate kiss I've ever received from a guy, and it was on the freaking forehead!

Since my little daughter is only half Jewish would it be alright if she went into the pool only up to her waist?

If left to their own devices a child will achieve.

The shadow of human life is traced upon a golden ground of immortal hope.

I'm one of those people who does a lot of things. I'm lucky. I get up and I have a lot of energy. I have a great work ethic.

The God of the Old Testament is the depiction of evil.

I hear Jesus telling us to stop negotiating with Him, to stop offering something we think we have in exchange for His blessings.

Why have a pet hate? Why should it be confined? My hate is both wide ranging and total.

any mystery writer is both magician and moralist ... two species of artist in short supply.