Quotes

A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger than a man on foot.

Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, and then steps in it.

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why then do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid stable business.

[advice to his young son] There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the ugly and crippling kind. The other is an outpouring of everything good in you - of kindness and consideration and respect - not only the social respect of manners but the greater respect which is recognition of another person as unique and valuable. The first kind can make you sick and small and weak, but the second can release in you strength and courage and goodness, and even wisdom you didn't know you had.

It is a common experience that a problem, difficult at night, is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quick vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.

In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.

If you're in trouble or hurt or need-go to poor people. They're the only ones that'll help-the only ones.

Nobody sticks a knife in the status quo and gets away with it.