Writers should avoid the academy. When a writer begins to accept pay for talking about words, we know what he will produce soon: nothing but words.

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

A true libertarian supports free enterprise, opposes big business; supports local self-government, opposes the nation-state; supports the National Rifle Association, opposes the Pentagon.

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.

What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most.

When a man must be afraid to drink freely from his country's river and streams that country is no longer fit to live in.

In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.