First buy a cowboy hat and boots. Then you're on your way to being a Texan.

The decent thing to do is to get rid of some of this money.

Millions upon millions of years ago, when the continents were already formed and the principal features of the earth had been decided, there existed, then as now, one aspect of the world that dwarfed all other ... a mighty ocean, resting uneasily to the east of the largest continent, a restless ever-changing, gigantic body of water that would later be described as Pacific.

...when men ignite in their hearts a religious fury, they inflict at the same time a blindness on their eyes.

As a writer I have persisted in my uncertainty, alternating between novels which could charitably be considered literature and world reporting which by another stretch of objective standards might be called history.

Rampaging horsemen can conquer; only the city can civilize.

We are never prepared for what we expect.