Literature, like anything else, can become a wearisome business if you make a lifetime specialty of it. A healthy, wholesome man would no more spend his entire life reading great books than he would packing cookies for Nabisco.

A man without a horse is like a man without a weapon: stunted and naked.

Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.

King Arthur and his armored goons of the Round Table functioned as the Politburo of a slave state: Camelot. Of all who have written on the Matter of Arthur, from Malory to White, only Mark Twain understood this. But Mark Twain was a great writer.

Paradise for a happy man lies in his own good nature.

High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring

One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.