A house built on greed cannot long endure.

All serious writers want the obvious rewards: fame, money, women, love -- and most of all, an audience!

It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave.

My Aunt Ida at age eighty-three: 'Yeah,' she said, 'I'll be dead pretty soon. And frankly, I don't give a damn.'

Though I've lived in the rural West most of my life, I never once fell in love with a horse. Not once. Neither end.

A leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the whip, the power of fear.

If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.