About mistakes it's funny. You got to make your own; and not only that, if you try to keep people from making theirs they get mad.

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.

There are only two kinds of people in the world that really count. One kind's wheat and the other kind's emeralds.

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

Take Texas the way Texas takes bourbon. Straight. It goes down easier.

But always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and burgundy, chrysoprase and prophyry. Life has no weapons against a woman like that.

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.