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.

The feminine in the man is the sugar in the whisky. The masculine in the woman is the yeast in the bread. Without these ingredients the result is flat, without tang or flavor.

... home isn't always the place where you were born and bred. Home is the place where your everyday clothes are, and where somebody or something needs you.

Funny, isn't it, how your whole life goes by while you think you're only planning the way you're going to live it?

The writer is a writer because he cannot help it. It is a compulsion.

Whoever said love conquers all was a fool. Because almost everything conquers love - or tries to.

No one in the United States has the right to own millions of acres of American land, I don't care how they came by it.