I feel myself the inheritor of a great background of people. Just who, precisely, they were, I have never known. I might be part Negro, might be part….

I've spent my life trying to be better than I was, and I am a brother to all who share the same aspiration..

In six pages, I can't even say "Hello..

I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains..

I kept careful record of the impact of religion on the election in my county. The religious issue permeated every meeting I conducted. It influenced ….

First buy a cowboy hat and boots. Then you're on your way to being a Texan..

It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid..

It is difficult to be king when the gods are changing..

If I were a young man, I would not hesitate at writing anything to get into print, except pornography..

Only another writer, someone who had worked his heart out on a good book which sold three thousand copies, could appreciate the thrill that overcame ….

a soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible changes can occur in his favor..

Contrary to what people think, I slave over my books..

No man leaves where he is and seeks a distant place unless he is in some respect a failure..

During my lifetime I have met dozens of writers and photographers in dozens of different countries. But I have encountered no one who could both writ….

Not too many people work in a job where, waiting out there are three or four hundred people who are paid to tear apart what you've done. And often th….

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 attribute….

It was the silent time before dawn, along the shores of what had been one of the most beautiful lakes in southern Africa..

Animals form an inalienable fragment of nature, and if we hasten the disappearance of even one species, we diminish our world and our place in it..

Millions upon millions of years ago, when the continents were already formed and the principal features of the earth had been decided, there existed,….

Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire knowledge; they are the sinews that bind civilized ….

Creative geniuses are a slap-happy lot. Treat Them with respect..