...Proximity to a noose danger and death ... can make man or woman appreciate things.

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.

Trail dust is thicker'n blood.

What can the will do when the heart commands?

Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.

For a man with an education the world is a wide place and the opportunities are many

I do not think much of ages. People are people. What does it matter how old or young they are? It is a category, and I do not like categories. It is a sort of pigeonhole or a label.