Trail dust is thicker'n blood.

Beware of those who would use violence, too often it is violence they want and neither truth nor freedom.

It is better to have no emotion when it is work. Do what needs to be done, and do it coolly.

I do not like violence, but ours is a violent time, and there are some men who understand nothing else.

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

One day I was speeding along at the typewriter, and my daughter - who was a child at the time - asked me, "Daddy, why are you writing so fast?" And I replied, "Because I want to see how the story turns out!

The more one learns, the more he understands his ignorance.