There has never been an 'original' sin: each is quite banal.

The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live. And we pay them for it.

When a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up an honest trade like shoe repair, cattle stealing, or screwworm management.

Chastity is more a state of mind than of anatomy.

A cowboy is a farm boy in leather britches and a comical hat.

Wilderness and motors are incompatible and the former can best be experienced, understood and enjoyed when the machines are left behind where they belong -- on the superhighways and in the parking lots, on the reservoirs and in the marinas.

I choose to listen to the river for a while, thinking river thoughts, before joining the night and the stars.