I went to the Grand Canyon with my family when I was about 8 years old, and I had a very blah experience. I think the scale of it is too huge - you don't appreciate it.

It's not at all naturally human to see something like the Grand Canyon as beautiful.

In golf, 'close' is like the north and south rim of the Grand Canyon.

You can't say you're going to jump the Grand Canyon and then jump some other canyon.

I think what I would really most like to write about is palm trees and bougainvillea and hummingbirds. I would like to go into the desert and write about salamanders and the Grand Canyon, but history keeps rupturing my experience because politics are everywhere.

Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said, 'No.'