Where, indeed? Captain Vincent Reed had been born in the city of Richmond, Virginia, of northern parents who were stationed there by the telegraph company. He had attended West Point and he thought he...
A soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible changes can occur in his favor.
It took her three seconds-one, two, three-to know that her destiny required her to join this man, and his gun and his wagon, and his waiting horses. She had no conception of what was being asked of he...
Being goal-oriented instead of self-oriented is crucial. I know so many people who want to be writers. But let me tell you, they really don't want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They w...
Rampaging horsemen can conquer; only the city can civilize.
Very early on in life, I decided the hell with it: material things weren't for me. Christmas would come, and other kids would have all these presents, and it wouldn't bother me a bit.
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
I wondered how a man ever got an English girl into bed. What did they do with her hockey stick?
Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.
I have often been mildly amused when I think that the great American novel was not written about New England or Chicago. It was written about a white whale in the South Pacific.
I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.
Ибо, когда у людей горит в сердцах религиозная ярость, на глаза их в то же время спускается завеса слепоты.
You have to be eligible for luck to strike and I think that's a matter of education and preparation and character and all the other solid attributes that sometimes people laugh at.
It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.
Of all the men who were photographed that day, the chief’s life had come closest to the American ideal, closest in observing the principles on which this nation had been founded. He was immeasurably g...
No man leaves where he is and seeks a distant place unless he is in some respect a failure.
An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
Only the rocks live forever, Gray Wolf said.
A ship, like a human being, moves best when it is slightly athwart the wind, when it has to keep its sails tight and attend its course. Ships, like men, do poorly when the wind is directly behind, pus...
All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall.