To me, no painter has ever quite understood the light, the distances, the aboriginal ghostliness of the American West as well as Maynard Dixon. The great mood of his work is solitude, the effect of land and space on people. While his work stands perfectly well on its claims to beauty, it offers a spiritual view of the West indispensable to anyone who would understand it.

The trouble is, you can't properly present something you don't believe in.

In the future, I mean to be a fine streamside entomologist. I'm going to start on that when I am much too old to do any of the two thousand things I can think of that are more fun than screening insects in cold running water

Giving freaks a pass is the oldest tradition in Montana.

It don't do you no nevermind to tell nobody nothing.

Something had gone amiss with men, and the weak ones were dangerous.

The mountains paralleled the valley and the snowy peaks were extending with fall to the valley floor.