A man shares his days with hunger, thirst, and cold, with the good times and the bad, and the first part of being a man is to understand that.

Adventure is just a romantic name for trouble. It sounds swell when you write about it, but it's hell when you meet it face to face in a dark and lonely place.

Luck comes to a man who puts himself in the way of it. You went where something might be found and you found something, simple as that.

When a man is one of a kind, he will be lonely wherever he is.

A ship does not sail with yesterday's wind.

A television picture or a movie might be lost forever, but your book is waiting.

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.