Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.

It is possible, even probable, to be told a truth about a place, to accept it, to know it and at the same time not to know anything about it.

When you're huntin' somepin you're a hunter, an' you're strong. Can't nobody beat a hunter. But when you get hunted - that's different. Somepin happens to you. You ain't strong: maybe you're fierce, but you ain't strong." - Muley

A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old because there was no need for a man.

I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless.

Give me a used Bible and I will, I think, be able to tell you about a man by the places that are edged with the dirt of seeking fingers.

I have starved and it isn't nearly as bad as is generally supposed. Four days and a half was my longest stretch. Maybe there are pains that come later. Personally I think terror is the painful part of starvation.