Practically any Western has a homesteader in trouble, and a mysterious rider shows up off the range, solves the problem over two or three days, and then rides off into the sunset.

I love Italian food but that's too generic a term for what's available now: you have to narrow it down to Tuscan, Sicilian, and so on.

So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an idiot to be burnt-out in this job.

Don't be sad that roses have thorns. Be glad that thorns have Roses. Today's the day I worried about yesterday and it didn't happen.

You see something scary, you should stand up and step toward it, not away from it. Instinctively, reflexively, in a raging fury.

The best fights are the ones you don't have", a wise man once said to me.

Sometimes if you want to know for sure whether the stove is hot, the only way to find out is to touch it.