I'll be all around in the dark - I'll be everywhere.

It requires self-esteem to receive-not self-love but just a pleasant acquaintance and liking for oneself.

All Americans believe that they are born fishermen. For a man to admit a distaste for fishing would be like denouncing mother-love or hating moonlight.

The Mojave is a big desert and a frightening one. It’s as though nature tested a man for endurance and constancy to prove whether he was good enough to get to California.

No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us.

We are lonesome animals. We spend all life trying to be less lonesome.

And finally comes culture, which is entertainment, relaxation, transport out of the pain of living.