A story must simmer in its own juice for months or even years before it's ready to serve.

I think that in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion.

There's no sauce for play like work.

Anything can have happened in Oklahoma. Practically everything has.

The very rich and the very social are, often, the very stuffy.

here in Texas maybe we've got into the habit of confusing bigness with greatness.

A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.