Let the people walk. Or ride horses, bicycles, mules, wild pigs-anything-but keep the automobiles and the motorcycles and all their motorized relatives out. We have agreed not to drive our automobiles into cathedrals, concert halls, art museums, legislative assemblies, private bedrooms and other sanctums of our culture; we should treat our national parks with the same deference, for they, too, are holy places.

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.

Football is a game for trained apes. That, in fact, is what most of the players are -- retarded gorillas wearing helmets and uniforms. The only thing more debased is the surrounding mob of drunken monkeys howling the gorillas on.

I would like to evoke the sense of wonder and magic in the reader but without invoking the mystical, the supernatural or the transcendent.

A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.

Christian theology: nothing so grotesque could possibly be true.

Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.