Faith can reclaim deserts as well as move mountains.

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

You can't retire to weakness -- you've got to learn to control strength.

Largeness is a lifelong matter. You grow because you are not content not to. You are like a beaver that chews constantly because if it doesn't, it's teeth grow long and lock. You grow because you are a grower; you're large because you can't stand to be small.

We simply need that wild country available to us... For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.

In fiction I think we should have no agenda but to tell the truth.

It is somethingit can be everything-to have found a fellow bird with whom you can sit among the rafters while the drinking and boasting and reciting and fighting go on below.