Never did he fail to respond savagely to the chatter of the squirrel he had first met on the blasted pine.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.

The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.

There's only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the disappoint­ment s.

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

The problem was never my mind

Excellence has a loud mouth

Because When you write about people, you inevitably offend--but if you write about animals, the evil do not recognize themselves but the good understand immediately.

Truth is stranger than fiction...

Maybe the moral of the legend is that we are all carved, created, and formed by a master hand. Maybe we are all works of art.

Photography's central sense of purpose and aesthetic: the precise and lucid description of significant fact.

America is ripe for lies and lethargy. The pure mountain air is going and gone. It is a huge burden and a sadness for us all.

I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible.

Each man has his own batch of poems.

You know, any sane magician would never reveal his method of deception. And I don't think that a sensible musician would either.