Living a life is much like climbing mountains-the summits are always further off than you think, but when a man has a goal, he always feels he's working toward something.

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

Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.

There is no man more dangerous than one who does not doubt his own rightness.

The thieves and killers are goin' to have guns, so if the honest men don't have 'em they just make it easier for the vicious.

There is no miraculous change that takes place in a boy that makes him a man. He becomes a man by being a man.

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.