All I ever did was supply a demand that was pretty popular.

Be careful who you call your friends. I’d rather have four quarters than one hundred pennies.

A smile can get you far, but a smile with a gun can get you further.

In this life all that I have is my word and my balls and I do not break them for nobody.

I would rather be rich affluent and greedy and go to hell when I die, than live in poverty on this earth.

Some call it bootlegging. Some call it racketeering. I call it a business.

I have spent the best years of my life giving people the lighter pleasures, helping them have a good time, and all I get is abuse, the existence of a hunted man.

I am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand.

Hell must be a pretty swell spot, because the guys that invented religion have sure been trying hard to keep everybody else out.

You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.

You accomplish more with a smile, a handshake, and a gun than you do with just a smile and a handshake.

I have lost control over everything, even the places in my head.

They were being poisoned.

Somehow life had become a story problem, and William was horrible at math.

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

Harry and I have been sweethearts and married more than forty years - and no matter where I was, when I put out my hand Harry's was there to grasp it.

When you imitate the enemy's tactics, you take on his liabilities.

For a successful writer, the secret is to have many irons in the fire. Write the next thing.

The High Plains, the beginning of the desert West, often act as a crucible for those who inhabit them.

On God for all events depend; You cannot want when God's your friend. Weigh well your part and do your best; Leave to your Maker all the rest.

This happens to me: I have this great idea and then I make the mistake of telling someone else.