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

Roast Beef, Medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. Seated at Life's Dining Table, with the menu of Morals before you, your eye wanders a bit over the entrees, the hors d'oeuvres, and the things a la though you know that Roast Beef, Medium, is safe and sane, and sure.

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

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

A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

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.

But almost any place is Baghdad if you don't know what will happen in it.