The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.

What is today accepted as truth will tomorrow prove to be only amusing.

Revenge could steal a man's life until there was nothing left but emptiness.

One learns to adapt to the land in which one lives.

Actors, politicians, and writers-all of us are but creatures of the hour. Long-lasting fame comes to but few.

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.

The fact of the matter is that poor men do not often steal, and when they do, it is petty theft, something to eat or perhaps an item of clothing to keep them from the cold. Thieves are usually those who have something and want more.