The people among which I lived - and yet live, mainly - made their living from cotton, wheat, cattle, oil, with the usual percentage of business men ….

I have accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts..

No man can be convinced when he will not..

The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!.

Money and muscle, that's what I want; to be able to do any damned thing I want and get away with it. Money won't do that altogether, because if a man….

For man's only weapon is courage that flinches not from the gates of Hell itself, and against such not even the legions of Hell can stand..

Civilization is a natural and inevitable consequence - whether good or evil I am not prepared to state..

But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by ….

Coming, as I do, from mountain folk on one side and sea followers on the other, there are few old songs of the hills or the sea with which I am not f….

Over the souls of men spread the condor wings of colossal monsters and all manner of evil things prey upon the heart and soul and body of Man. Yet it….

One objection I have heard voiced to works of this kind—dealing with Texas—is the amount of gore spilled across the pages. It can not be otherwise. I….

It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight..

Animals are neither gods nor fiends, but men in their way without the lust and greed of man..

Don't you think that as a people, Americans have less poetry, real poetry, in their souls than any other nations?.

Let me live deep while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat & stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultatio….

I have not been a success, and probably never will be..

Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph.

Break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed..

When a nation forgets her skill in war, when her religion becomes a mockery, when the whole nation becomes a nation of money-grabbers, then the wild ….

Life is but a web spun of ghosts and dreams and illusions..

What always was must always be..