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

If you feel that you must suffer, then plan your suffering carefully -- as you choose your dreams, as you conceive your ancestors.

I suppose each of us has his own fantasy of how he wants to die. I would like to go out in a blaze of glory, myself, or maybe simply disappear someday, far out in the heart of the wilderness I love, all by myself, alone with the Universe and whatever God may happen to be looking on. Disappear - and never return. That's my fantasy.

I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.

It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive.

Love flowers best in openness and freedom.

In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.