The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live. And we pay them for it.

When the writer has done his best, he then should proceed to do his second best.

The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never even went to college.

A world without open country would be universal jail.

The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition.

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.

One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind of a role and place in the community. I never felt that living in a city - as I once did for a couple of years.