Imported actors, like certain wines, sometimes do not stand the ocean trip. This can be as true of American actors in Europe as it is of European actors in America.

Christmas is not a season. It is a feeling.

Texas history is a varied, tempestuous, and vast as the state itself. Texas yesterday is unbelievable, but no more incredible than Texas today. Today's Texas is exhilarating, exasperating, violent, charming, horrible, delightful, alive.

Take Texas the way Texas takes bourbon. Straight. It goes down easier.

It's difficult to write a really good short story because it must be a complete and finished reflection of life with only a few words to use as tools. There isn't time for bad writing in a short story.

A writer's working hours are his waking hours. He is working as long as he is conscious and frequently when he isn't.

About mistakes it's funny. You got to make your own; and not only that, if you try to keep people from making theirs they get mad.