If you want the law to leave you alone, keep your hair trimmed and your boots shined.

Books are the perfect Time Machine. By the simple act of opening a book you can, in an instant, be travelling up a jungle river without once being bitten by mosquitoes, or you can almost die of thirst in the desert while holding a cold drink in your hand, or dine in the finest restaurants and never have to worry about paying the bill, or ride the wild country of our western frontier and never worry about losing your scalp to a raiding party.

Everyone has it within his power to say, this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow.

You can't fight the desert... you have to ride with it.

The saddle is a place for dreaming when there's hours of trail ahead.

If you write a book set in the past about something that happened east of the Mississippi, it's a 'historical novel.' If you write about something that took place west of the Mississippi, it's a 'Western'- and somehow regarded as a lesser work. I write historical novels about the frontier.

To pursue a man effectively, it is best to begin with his thinking.