It should not be denied... that being footloose has always exhilarated us. It is associated in our minds with escape from history and oppression and law and irksome obligations, with absolute freedom, and the road has always led West.

The Westerner is less a person than a continuing adaptation. The West is less a place than a process.

We made plenty of mistakes, but we never tripped anybody to gain an advantage, or took illegal shortcuts when no judge was around. We have all jogged and panted it out the whole way.

A writer is an organism that will go on writing even after its heart has been cut out.

It should not be denied... that being footloose has always exhilarated us. It is associated in our minds with escape from history and oppression and law and irksome obligations, with absolute freedom, and the road has always led West.

Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to.

Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.