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

celebratin' New Year's Eve is like eatin' oranges. You got to let go your dignity t' really enjoy 'em.

If it's freedom you want, come to Texas. No one there tells you what to do and how you have to do it.

The ideal view for daily writing, hour for hour, is the blank brick wall of a cold-storage warehouse. Failing this, a stretch of sky will do, cloudless if possible.

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.

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

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