After a few days, I mused, I would have no trouble. Whoever heard of a revolution of fat men?

Mountains should not be judged by altitude.

There is nothing more dangerous than a woman with a shotgun. Because you don't know when it's going to go off...and neither does she.

Throw a rock into a pack of dogs, the one that yelps the loudest is usually the one that got hit.

One day I was speeding along at the typewriter, and my daughter - who was a child at the time - asked me, "Daddy, why are you writing so fast?" And I replied, "Because I want to see how the story turns out!

I do not like violence, but ours is a violent time, and there are some men who understand nothing else.

A true gentleman is at a disadvantage in dealing with women. Women are realists, and their tactics are realistic, so no man should be a gentleman where women are concerned unless the women are very, very old or very, very young. Women admire gentlemen, and sleep with cads.