You stick your finger in the water and you pull it out, and that is how much of a hole you leave when you're gone.

It is not enough to do, one must also become. I wish to be wiser, stronger, better. This--" I held out my hands "--this thing that is me is incomplete. It is only the raw material with which I have to work. I want to make it better than I received it.

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on

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.

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

Adventure is nothing but a romantic name for trouble.

Today you can buy the Dialogues of Plato for less than you would spend on a fifth of whiskey, or Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire for the price of a cheap shirt. You can buy a fair beginning of an education in any bookstore with a good stock of paperback books for less than you would spend on a week's supply of gasoline.