Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.
Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.
I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.
There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.