I am happy to be a regional writer. My region is the American West, old Mexico, West Virginia, New York, Europe, Australia, the human heart, and the male groin.

War? The one war I'd be happy to join is the war against officers.

Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!

Desert springtime, with flowers popping up all over the place, trees leafing out, streams gushing down from the mountains. Great time of year for hiking, camping, exploring, sleeping under the new moon and the old stars. At dawn and at evening we hear the coyotes howling with excitement—mating season.

There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.

Cowboys make better lovers: Ask any cow.

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.