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

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

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

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.

When a new post-war generation has grown to puberty and to youth and to manhood and womanhood, it should read, and it should be realistically told, of the futility, the idiocy, the utter depravity of war. For that matter, this instruction could begin at the age of six with the taking of those toy guns out of those toy holsters and throwing them in the ash-cans where they belong.

Spring ... made fair false promises which summer was called upon to keep.

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.