“But the love of adventure was in father's blood.”

“Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.”

“We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment.”

“My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.”

“When man will return to nature, nature will return to him.”

“The sky is an enormous man.”

“When the full-grown poet came,Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all its shows of day and night,) saying, He is mine;But out spake too the Soul of man, proud, jealous and unr...”

“There are many things that make a man irritable when he arrives home from work in the evening and a sensible wife will usually notice the storm-signals and will leave him alone until he simmers down.”

“Oblivion, she thought. That was the world she lived in. It was what they should name some countries, towns, and places.”

“A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.'Quite often men are fools.”

“There is a personal sacrifice required to realize Gods passion”

“Personal Responsibility is the state of being the person who caused something to happen.”

“Writing is hard work. Attempting to write a decent story is friggin exhausting!”