Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.

It is the difference between men and women, not the sameness, that creates the tension and the delight.

Wilderness. The word itself is music.

I find more and more, as I grow older, that I prefer women to men, children to adults, animals to humans.... And rocks to living things? No, I'm not that old yet.

I wouldn't trade a good horse for the best Rolls-Royce ever made -- unless I could trade the Rolls for two good horses.

One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.

The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.