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

Texas history is a varied, tempestuous, and vast as the state itself. Texas yesterday is unbelievable, but no more incredible than Texas today. Today's Texas is exhilarating, exasperating, violent, charming, horrible, delightful, alive.

Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.

In New York the sky is bluer, and the grass is greener, and the girls are prettier, and the steaks are thicker, and the buildings are higher, and the streets are wider, and the air is finer, than the sky, or the grass, or the girls, or the steaks, or the air of any place else in the world.

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.

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

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