I don’t mind getting smacked on the chin. I just don’t want to get nibbled to death. There’s a difference.

Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.

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

There's a responsibility in being a person. It's more than just taking up space where air would be.

An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.

If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it 'cause he feels awful poor inside hisself, and if he's poor in hisself, there ain't no million acres gonna make him feel rich, an' maybe he's disappointed that nothin' he can do 'll make him feel rich.

You got to live before you can afford to die.