I have never in my life taken a command into battle and had the slightest desire to come out alive unless I won.

If I owned Texas and Hell, I'd rent out Texas and live in Hell.

Always make your opponent think you know more than you really know.

The only good Indians I ever saw were dead.

I don't care a damn for their guns, or you either, sir! What I want is the Southside Railroad!

Play the gayest tunes in your books, play them loud and keep on playing them, and never mind if a bullet goes through a trombone, or even a trombonist, now and then.

Wherever man did not settle, the world was not owned.It was not wanted.In time of course this was bound to change, for there is never enough it seems.

Feminism is a movement for change, not a changing of the guard.

If you don't know what's respect, I think that you will end up like, "It's not a Happy".

The psyche of some people, whether through innate structure or via adaption to personal experiences, is uniquely adept for absolute aloneness.

You want to lay yourself out like an appetizer, go ahead.

I don't really love computers.

Nothing — the only perfection, the only absolute. Infinite and eternal nothing.

People everywhere love Windows.

The world is a very complex and interesting place and that is what I really want my fiction to say: wake up to how amazing the world is.

I've done too many stupid things for there not to be movies made about me when I'm dead, so I might as well write the script.