The best argument for Christianity is the Gregorian chant. Listening to that music, one can believe anything -- while the music lasts.

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

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

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

The feminist notion that the whole of human history has been nothing but a vast intricate conspiracy by men to enslave their wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters presents us with an intellectual neurosis for which we do not yet have a name.

Whenever I read _Time_ or _Newsweek_ or such magazines, I wash my hands afterward. But how to wash off the small but odious stain such reading leaves on the mind?

The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy. Not for nothing was the revolver called an "equalizer."