If you do not get what you want, it is a sure sign that you did not seriously want it.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance on moods and tempers; the noting of discrepancies between speech and action; a certain reserve of demeanour; and automatic suspicion of sudden favours.

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.

There are nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right.

Believe the best of everybody.

San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.