"Louis gives us a lesson — too seldom offered by academic or professional critics — in open-mindedness and literary ch…"

"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning."

"Do not let yourself be bothered by the inconsequential. One has only so much time in this world, so devote it to the …"

"A mistake constantly made by those who should know better is to judge people of the past by our standards rather than…"

"Characters have a way of taking on a life on their own, expressing themselves in the simple philosophy of their times…"

"He had seen Hyle shoot, and he had seen only one man he thought was as good ... just one. He'd seen Con Vallian down …"

"Out here you better have a gun, and a gun in the wagon ain't good for nothin'. I believe what the old Quaker said,"Tr…"

"How much could I tell them? How much dared I tell them? What was the point at which acceptance would begin to yield t…"

"We are all of us, it has been said, the children of immigrants and foreigners — even the American Indian, although he…"

"This was the beginning of something, yet I had ventured back into a world from which I had come and found it an alien…"