Louis L'Amour

A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.

To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.

No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.

I generally don't follow domestic news that much aside from how it relates to the stories I'm covering abroad, like what Americans think of the War in Afghanistan.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

When I write that I've known about something for a long time, that's not a boast. That's a confession. It's me acknowledging that I have withheld something important from the public.