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

I'd be happy to have my biography be the stories of my dogs. To me, to live without dogs would mean accepting a form of blindness.

Giving freaks a pass is the oldest tradition in Montana.

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

I had just settled Grandma on her folding chair and popped open our box lunch when the corpse floated by.

I may be the wrong person for my life.