Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.

I never figured it was a cowardly thing to be scared. It's to be scared and still face up to what scares you that matters.

There is nothing more dangerous than a woman with a shotgun. Because you don't know when it's going to go off...and neither does she.

One thing has always been true: That book or that person who can give me an idea or a new slant on an old idea is my friend.

Men strive for peace, but it is their enemies that give them strength, and I think if man no longer had enemies, he would have to invent them, for his strength only grows from struggle.

What people speak of as adventure is something nobody in his right mind would seek out, and it becomes romantic only when one is safely at home.

No man ever raised a monument to a cynic or wrote a poem about a man without faith.