A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called "Huckleberry Finn. "

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never really care for anything else thereafter.

Courage is grace under pressure.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done o ...

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.