Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

In all of nature, there is no sound more pleasing than that of a hungry animal at its feed. Unless you are the food.

But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.

War: First day in the U.S. Army, the government placed a Bible in my left hand, a bayonet in the other.

If, as some say, evil lies in the hearts and not the institutions of men, then there's hardly a distinction worth making between, say, Hitler's Germany and Rebecca's Sunnybrook Farm.

Little boys love machines; girls adore horses; grown-up men and women like to walk.

I suppose each of us has his own fantasy of how he wants to die. I would like to go out in a blaze of glory, myself, or maybe simply disappear someday, far out in the heart of the wilderness I love, all by myself, alone with the Universe and whatever God may happen to be looking on. Disappear - and never return. That's my fantasy.