The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

Freedom is from within.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

Dare to risk public criticism.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.

Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, The Bores and the Bored.

Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

A good liar must have a good memory.

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.