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

There have always been hard times. There have always been wars and troubles -famine, disease and such-like -and some folks are born with money, some with none. In the end it is up to the man what he becomes, and none of those other things matters. It is character that counts.

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

A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do

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

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

Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. If one really wants to learn, one has to decide what is important. Spending an evening on the town? Attending a ball game? Or learning something that can be with you your life long.