When a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up an honest trade like shoe repair, cattle stealing, or screwworm management.

God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.

Wilderness begins in the human mind.

When a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up an honest trade like shoe repair, cattle stealing, or screwworm management.

The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all.

The basic science is not physics or mathematics but biology -- the study of life. We must learn to think both logically and bio-logically.

Trout fishing. One must be a stickler for proper form. Use nothing but #4 blasting caps, or a hand grenade, if handy, or at a pool well-lined with stone, one blast from a .44 magnum will bring a few stunned brookies quietly to the surface.