All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I.

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.

One never realizes how much and how little he knows until he starts talking.

Carryin' a gun is a chancy thing. Sooner or later a man is put in a position to use it. And a body has to figure that if somebody packs iron he plans to use it when the time comes; and if he draws it out, he plans to shoot.

A mountain man tries to live with the country instead of against it.

Sometimes we have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have to grow to meet it.

Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware.