Out here you better have a gun, and a gun in the wagon ain't good for nothin'. I believe what the old Quaker said, 'Trust in the Lord, but keep your powder dry.

It is better to fear a little. One is cautious then.

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.

Love is a moment of stillness that sometimes a word can shatter to pieces. Or love can be a thing that endures, a rich, deep current flowing unending through the years.

when guns are outlawed only the outlaws will have guns.

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

A ship does not sail with yesterday's wind.