War: First day in the U.S. Army, the government placed a Bible in my left hand, a bayonet in the other.

Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.

The love of a man for his wife, his child, of the land where he lives and works, is for me the real meaning of mystical experience.

I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who got away.

Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.

In the world of words, one of my best-loved tribes is the diatribe.

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.