Quotes from Louis L'Amour

How lonely were these silent hills! How reaching out for the sounds of men, for I believe a land needs people to nurse its flesh and bring from it the goodness of crops.

You stick with him, no matter what. It's all he'll ever have, what you can give him.

If one has a book, Mr. Boone, One is never alone. They will talk to you when you want to listen, and when you tire of what they are saying, you just close the book. It will be waiting for you when you come back to it.

When the raw, harsh liquor had cut the dust from his throat he looked up at a nearby

Only the innocent speak of adventure, for adventure is only a romantic name for trouble...

He was ready to die here—today.  There was nowhere left to go. He knew he had reached the end of his trail and he was content. As

And this town was no different. Even the faces were the same. It was strange, he thought, how little difference there was in people. When one traveled, got around to many towns, one soon realized there were just so many types, and one found them in every town. Names were different, and expressions, but it was like many casts playing the same roles in a drama. The parts remained the same; only the names of the cast had changed.

They were waiting for his death. No

You don't think marriage is serious?" "Of course, I do. It is the ultimate test of maturity, and many find excuses for avoiding it because they know they are not up to the challenge, or capable of carrying on a mature relationship.

Men may plan, they may dream and struggle, but the buzzard has only to wait, for all things come to him in the end.

He knew how she felt. Sometimes a body just had to have somebody to talk to. You saw something and you wanted to turn and say, Isn't that beautiful? And there was nobody there.

You will leave here at daybreak and you will leave alone. He smiled, showing a fine set of white, even teeth. And if I do not choose to? Bodies do not lie long upon the ground. The coyotes dispose of them.

It seems to me that the more money one has the more one worries about little unimportant things.

Suddenly a knowledge came upon me.

up, his features stern with disapproval. "I

Indians got a story," Hondo said, "about a hunter who chased a puma until he caught him. Then it was the other way around.

the door. Far down the street he could

Oft times a blade across the room beyond the reach of a hand means that death is nearer. I

The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.

Bayly, to say that he died down in the Guadaloupes. . .of

Murder? It is not easily done, amigo.

It takes a mighty fine discipline to hold men together when trouble is creeping up on you. Yet without discipline there is surely disaster. The best discipline comes from within a man, but you'll never get a party of men together where all have it. This

exhilarating silence.

gun blasted, but the shot was high and Jeb seized the arm in his huge jaws and then man and dog went rolling over and over on the floor. Vetter threw Morgan off and came to his feet, but Morgan lashed out with a left that knocked him back through the door. Dorfman managed to get