I have told many, yet when I go down that last trail, I know there will be a thousand stories hammering at my skull, demanding to be told.

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

If you wait for inspiration, you're not a writer, but a waiter.

Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance.

A man who says he has never been scared is either lying or else he's never been any place or done anything.

A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. You have a chance to select from pretty elegant furnishings.

Much of command is the ability to take command.