Nicknames are fond names. We do not give them to people we dislike.

Anything can have happened in Oklahoma. Practically everything has.

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.

I don't know what it is that makes a writer go to his desk in his shut-off room day after day after year after year unless it is the sure knowledge that not to have done the daily stint of writing that day is infinitely more agonizing than to write.

don't you hate people who say they're not complaining and then complain?

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

Writing, to be memorable, must be done in a state of impassioned serenity.