One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that cooperation, not rugged individualism, is the quality that most characterizes and preserves it, then it will have achieved itself and outlived its origins. Then it has a chance to create a society to match its scenery.
Wallace StegnerI am impressed by how much of my grandparent's life depended on continuities, contacts, connections, friendships, and blood relationships.
Wallace StegnerYoung writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers.
Wallace StegnerA political animal can be defined as a body that will go on circulating a petition even with its heart cut out.
Wallace Stegner