The really great writers are people like Emily Brontë who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.

A writer can make a fortune in America, but he can't make a living.

A poet sees things in two ways: First, as a child who never saw it before, and Second, as a dying man who will never see it again.

For all its enormous range of space, climate, and physical appearance, and for all the internal squabbles, contentions, and strivings, what you northerners never appreciate...is that Texas is so big that you can live your life within its limits and never give a damn about what anyone in Boston or San Francisco thinks.

On 24 October 1944 Planet Earth was following its orbit about the sun as it has obediently done for nearly five billion years.

I was surprised when shortly after New Year's Day of 1983, the Governor of Texas summoned me to his office, because I hadn't been aware that he knew I was in town.

If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.