A cowboy is a farm boy in leather britches and a comical hat.

Girls, like flowers, bloom but once. But once is enough.

No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.

Only a fool is astonished by the foolishness of mankind.

The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chainsaws. It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend and preserve it. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

Jesus don't walk on water no more; his feet leak.

In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth.