I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature.

A city man is a home anywhere, for all big cities are much alike. But a country man has a place where he belongs, where he always returns, and where, when the time comes, he is willing to die.

King Arthur and his armored goons of the Round Table functioned as the Politburo of a slave state: Camelot. Of all who have written on the Matter of Arthur, from Malory to White, only Mark Twain understood this. But Mark Twain was a great writer.

Roosters: The cry of the male chicken is the most barbaric yawp in all of nature.

We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtues; without courage, the other virtues are useless.

Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God; this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.

There comes a time in the life of us all when we must lay aside our books or put down our tools and leave our place of work and walk forth on the road to meet the enemy face-to-face. Once and for all and at last