Mayonnaise, like hollandaise, was invented by the French to cover up the flavor of spoiled flesh, stale vegetables, rotten fish. Beware the sauce! Where food comes beslobbered with an elegant slime you may well suspect the integrity of the basic ingredients.

Humankind will not be free until the last Kremlin commissar is strangled with the entrails of the last Pentagon chief of staff.

As between the skulking and furtive poacher, who hunts for the sake of meat, and the honest gentleman shooter, who kills for the pleasure of sport, I find the former a higher type of humanity.

We live in a society in which it is normal to be sick; and sick to be abnormal.

In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.

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.

It's true: Every time you kill an elk, you're saving some cow's life.