Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful.

Writers should avoid the academy. When a writer begins to accept pay for talking about words, we know what he will produce soon: nothing but words.

Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger.

I have written much about many good places. But the best places of all, I have never mentioned.

Man was created to complete the horse.

It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written.

Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?)