When at the typewriter I am no longer where I site but am away across the mountains, in ancient cities or on the Great Plains among the buffalo. Often I think of what pitiful fools are those who use mind-altering drugs to seek feelings they do not have, each drug taking a little more from what they have of mind, leaving them a little less. Give the brain encouragement from study, from thinking, from visualizing, and no drugs are needed.

A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is.

What can the will do when the heart commands?

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.

The way I see it, every time a man gets up in the morning he starts his life over. Sure, the bills are there to pay, and the job is there to do, but you don't have to stay in a pattern. You can always start over, saddle a fresh horse and take another trail.

A man can lose sight of everything else when he's bent on revenge, and it ain't worth it.

At the earliest drawings of the fractal curve, few clues to the underlying mathematical structure will be seen.