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

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.

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

The dancer becomes the dance. And I am the writing.

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.

There have always been hard times. There have always been wars and troubles