There is no trajectory so pathetic as that of an artist in decline.

If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.

A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.

The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values.

In this glare of brilliant emptiness, in this arid intensity of pure heat, in the heart of a weird solitude, great silence and grand desolution, all things recede to distrances out of reach, relecting light but impossible to touch, annihilating all thought and all that men have made to a spasm of whirling dust far out on the golden desert.

Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy.

The only thing left worth saving is wilderness.