I'm happy to respect authority when it's genuine authority, based on moral or intellectual or even technical superiority. I'm eager to follow a hero if we can find one. But I tend to resist or evade any kind of authority based merely on the power to coerce. Government, for example. The Army tried to train us to salute the uniform, not the man. Failed. I will salute the man, maybe, if I think he's worthy of it, but I don't salute uniforms anymore.

Trout fishing. One must be a stickler for proper form. Use nothing but #4 blasting caps, or a hand grenade, if handy, or at a pool well-lined with stone, one blast from a .44 magnum will bring a few stunned brookies quietly to the surface.

The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all.

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

A cowboy is a hired hand on the middle of a horse contemplating the hind end of a cow.

Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.

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