And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.

There's nothing sadder to me than associations held together by nothing but the glue of postage stamps. If you can't see or hear or touch a man, it's best to let him go.

And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.

I nearly always write — just as I nearly always breathe.

Wherever you can look - wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there.

It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.

It seems to me Montana is a great splash of grandeur. The scale is huge but not overpowering. The land is rich with grass and color, and the mountains are the kind I would create if mountains were ever put on my agenda.