I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake.

There is a wine called Easy Days and Mellow Nights, well-known on the outskirts of the Navajo reservation. It is an economical wine, fortified with the best of intentions, and I recommend it to every serious wino.

A rancher is a farmer who farms the public lands with a herd of four-legged lawn mowers.

I, too, believe in fidelity. But how can I be true to one woman without being false to all the others?

I choose to listen to the river for a while, thinking river thoughts, before joining the night and the stars.

Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy.

It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written.