Never insult seven men when all your packing is a six-shooter.

I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture.

This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing.

The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.

I see so much more than I used to see. The effect has been to depress and sadden and hurt me terribly.

Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.

I will see this game of life out to its bitter end