“They cannot scare me with their empty spaces
Between stars—on stars where no human race is.
I have it in me so much nearer home
To scare myself with my own desert places.”
—Robert Frost
"I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors
most of the day and fool around at night.
That's what the desert animals do.
They don't have a tan either."
—Captain Beefheart
"There is nothing in the desert,
and no man needs nothing."
—Prince Feisal