A journey into the wilderness is the freest, cheapest, most nonprivileged of pleasures. Anyone with two legs and the price of a pair of army surplus combat boots may enter.

In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.

Little boys love machines; girls adore horses; grown-up men and women like to walk.

Too many American authors have a servile streak where their backbone should be. Where's our latest Nobel laureate? More than likely you'll find him in the Rose Garden kissing the First Lady's foot.

The "terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.

No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn sight better.

When a man must be afraid to drink freely from his country's river and streams that country is no longer fit to live in.