A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think. - Louis L'Amour

Knowledge is awareness, and to it there are many paths, not all of them paved with logic. But sometimes one is guided through the maze by intuition. One is led by something felt in the wind, something seen in the stars, something that calls from the wasteland to the spirit.
To receive the message, the mental pores must be open. And we white men in striving for our success, in seeking to build a new world from what lies around us, sometimes forget that there are other ways, sometimes forget the Lonesome Gods of the far places, the gods who live on the empty sea, who dance with the dust devils and who wait quietly in the shadows under the cliffs where ancient men once marked their passing with hands.

Courage and bravery are words too often used, too little considered. It is one thing to speak them, another thing to live them.

"You killed Rice Wheeler," he said, "the Panhandle gunman. "He should have stayed in the Panhandle," I said."