Let us hope our weapons are never needed - but do not forget what the common people of this nation knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An armed citizenry is the first defense, the best defense, and the final defense against tyranny.

A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles.

What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.

Every man should be his own guru; every woman her own gurette.

In the dog-eat-dog economy, the Doberman is boss.

In the first place you can't see anything from a car; you've got to get out of the goddamned contraption and walk, better yet crawl, on hands and knees, over the sandstone and through the thornbush and cactus. When traces of blood begin to mark your trail you'll begin to see something, maybe. Probably not.

The ideal kitchen-sink novel: Throw in everything but the kitchen sink. Then add the kitchen sink.