If you're going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not wait for an idea. Start writing something and the ideas will come. You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow.

If you wait for inspiration, you're not a writer, but a waiter.

A man who says he has never been scared is either lying or else he's never been any place or done anything.

violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights, then men are really in trouble.

I have told many, yet when I go down that last trail, I know there will be a thousand stories hammering at my skull, demanding to be told.

I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime, and find nothing at the end of the waiting. I would begin here, I would make something happen.

A man in his life may have many teachers, some most unexpected. The question lies with the man himself: Will he learn from them?