Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature.

I never would just open a door and walk through, I had to bust it down for the hell of it. I just naturally liked doing things the hard way.

You lose in the end unless you know how the wheel is fixed or can fix it yourself.

Does one eat peanuts at a ball game?' 'It ain't hardly legal if you don't.

I never go to weddings. Waste of time. Person can get married a dozen times. Lots of folks do. Family like ours, know everybody in the state of Texas and around outside, why, you could spend your life going to weddings. But a funeral, that's different. You only die once.

People permit life to slide past them like a deft pickpocket, their purse-not yet missed and now too late-in his hand.

writers of novels are so busy being solitary that they haven't time to meet one another. But then, a writer learns nothing from a writer, conversationally. If a writer has anything witty, profound or quotable to say he doesn't say it. He's no fool. He writes it.