No friendship is an accident.

If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life

The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.

Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him.

When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster...I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came. That's the story.

Be always decent and right in your home town; and when you're on the road, never take more than four glasses of beer a day or play higher than a twenty-five-cent limit.

There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.