I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against the world as it is, and myself as I am, are submerged in listless self-satisfaction.

The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.

Texas has a tight cohesiveness perhaps stronger than any other section of America.

I like a lot of talk in a book and I don't like to have nobody tell me what the guy that's talking looks like. I want to figure out what he looks like from the way he talks.

Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans

There are people who will say that this whole account is a lie, but a thing isn't necessarily a lie even if it didn't necessarily happen.

All men are moral. Only their neighbors are not.