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" I can be pretty dense about my own basic needs, when my focus is getting through the many small tasks of a day's work and a day's caretaking. "

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" There has to be space for play in literature. We all need some breathing room. "

" I wanted to write about this tropical honeymoon in part because I had the most drastically terrible honeymoon. "

" I don't like names that are clever or made-up sounding. "

" I have a king bed, one of those memory-foam mattresses that doesn't jiggle as you get in or out. Even if you cleaved it down the middle with a pickax, the thing wouldn't tremble. It's practically earthquake-proof. "

" I don't write the same book twice. "

" The question of one versus two species of African elephants isn't about settling an arcane DNA argument; it's about life or death for these majestic, extraordinary creatures. "

" Pugs are creatures of habit. "

" In Hiroshima, bombed Aug. 6, 1945, no warning was given of the air attack, and thus no escape was possible for the mostly women, children and old people who fell victim. "

" In 1805, the explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, making their way across the West, were warned by American Indian tribes of grizzly bears' awesome strength. "

" If Oak Flat were a Christian holy site or, for that matter, Jewish or Muslim, no senator who wished to remain in office would dare to sneak a backdoor deal for its destruction into a spending bill - no matter what mining-company profits or jobs might result. But this is Indian religion. "

" I wanted to go into the tropics and save animals - and write, of course. "

" Shouldn't the cascades of extinction and rapid planetary warming register in our literature? "

" Historically, grizzlies ranged from Alaska to Mexico, with at least 50,000 bears living in the western half of the contiguous United States. With European colonization, the bears were shot, poisoned, and trapped to the brink of extinction. "

" The Free Body Culture gave me a gift I might never have received had I refused to play along. It left me with an acute sense of the absurd - one I still cherish - to be there among my fellow apes, awkward and less than half-willing, aiming and missing, leaping, landing and wincing. "

" The comic novels I did when I was in my 20s had a harder edge - less sympathy for people. Or a sympathy that was harder to detect: Characters' foibles and obsessive bents were unrelenting, like caricatures. "

" When it comes to American Indians, mainstream America suffers from willful blindness. "

" If you're going to do a thing, do it fully so that no writing you give the world misrepresents you - so that nothing you put out there is like a sad regift you couldn't throw away and had to find a place for. "

" Within the macho-melodrama tropes of the superhero genre, it's fair to say 'Watchmen' stands out for its rich entertainment, its darkness, and its lurid pleasures. Its vividly drawn panels, moody colors and lush imagery make its popularity well-deserved, if disproportionate. "

" Wyoming, home to Yellowstone National Park and the Grand Tetons, is also the country's largest coal producer and one of its largest gas drillers. Two-thirds of the state's gas-drilling rigs are on public lands in the increasingly industrialized Greater Green River Basin. "

" In the 1970s, Safari Club International asked the federal government to approve its import of 1,125 not-yet-killed trophies of 40 endangered species, including gorillas, orangutans and tigers, according to the Humane Society of the United States. "

" People from the rest of the state tend to hate Phoenix, with that typical resentment of the boroughs and the towns for the big city. "

" My motto is, if you love something, don't set it free. No matter how hard it struggles. That would be stupid. "

" Domestic realism has dominated the American marketplace for decades now. It leeches into literary fiction, and I don't think it's that rich a vein. "

" African elephants have long been thought of as a single species, but a critical mass of genetic studies now proves there are two. "

" People who are obsessed amuse me. "

" I like to amuse myself. "

" It's a friendly act to write a lighthearted book. "

" Do we seek delicate phraseology in politics or other forms of public life? We do not. "

" It seems to me that the time for subtlety in our American life has passed. "

" Most of my books have something to do with L.A. "