A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is.

What people speak of as adventure is something nobody in his right mind would seek out, and it becomes romantic only when one is safely at home.

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 mind must be prepared for knowledge as one prepares a field for planting, and a discovery made too soon is no better than a discovery not made at all.

At the earliest drawings of the fractal curve, few clues to the underlying mathematical structure will be seen.

He never knew when he was whipped ... So he never was.

Much of command is the ability to take command.