You long for success? Start at the bottom; dig down.

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

The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while.

The real work of men was hunting meat. The invention of agriculture was a giant step in the wrong direction, leading to serfdom, cities, and empire. From a race of hunters, artists, warriors, and tamers of horses, we degraded ourselves to what we are now: clerks, functionaries, laborers, entertainers, processors of information.

It may be true that there are no atheists in foxholes. But you don't find many Christians there, either. Or, about as many of one as the other.

Places: a cold, bleak, lonely day on the rim at Muley Point, Utah. And the heart-cracking loveliness of the blood-smeared, bitter, incomprehensible slaughterhouse of a world.

A house built on greed cannot long endure.