The Apache don't have a word for love," he said. "Know what they both say at the marriage? The squaw-taking ceremony?" "Tell me." "Varlebena. It means forever. That's all they say.

I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant.

When you go to a country, you must learn how to say two things: how to ask for food, and to tell a woman that you love her. Of these the second is more important, for if you tell a woman you love her, she will certainly feed you.

Man needs so little... yet he begins wanting so much.

He never knew when he was whipped ... So he never was.

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.

The only thing that never changes is that everything changes.