Salome had but seven veils; the artist has a thousand.

Cold morning on Aztec Peak Fire Lookout. First, build fire in old stove. Second, start coffee. Then, heat up last night's pork chops and spinach for breakfast. Why not? And why the hell not?

Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.

I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I've encountered some unnecessary resistance that's because most of the traffic is going the other way.

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

We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.

All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if only for an hour.