War ... a reversal of the rules where a man is permitted to kill all the humans he can.

Men really do need sea-monsters in their personal oceans

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

Writing to me is a deeply personal, even a secret function and when the product I turned loose it is cut off from me and I have no sense of its being mine. Consequently criticism doesn't mean anything to me. As a disciplinary matter, it is too late.

A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.

Yes, you should talk," he said. "Sometimes a sad man can talk the sadness right out through his mouth. Sometimes a killin' man can talk the murder right out of his mouth.

The trash and litter of nature disappears into the ground with the passing of each year, but man's litter has more permanence.