Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.

The goat's business is none of the sheep's concern.

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.

All the difference in the world between the movies and the thrill I get out of a play at the theater. Ay, yes! Like fooling around with paper dolls when you could be playing with a real live baby.

A writer's working hours are his waking hours. He is working as long as he is conscious and frequently when he isn't.

There is an interesting resemblance in the speeches of dictators, no matter what country they may hail from or what language they may speak.

Any piece of furniture, I don't care how beautiful it is, has got to be lived with, and kicked about, and rubbed down, and mistreated by servants, and repolished, and knocked around and dusted and sat on or slept in or eaten off of before it develops its real character ... A good deal like human beings.