What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most.

Though I've lived in the rural West most of my life, I never once fell in love with a horse. Not once. Neither end.

Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word.

I love America because it is a confused, chaotic mess - and I hope we can keep it this way for at least another thousand years. The permissive society is the free society.

The basic science is not physics or mathematics but biology -- the study of life. We must learn to think both logically and bio-logically.

Of all the featherless beasts, only man, chained by his self-imposed slavery to the clock, denies the elemental fire and proceeds as best he can about his business, suffering quietly, martyr to his madness. Much to learn.