I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

There's more beauty in the truth even if it is dreadful beauty.

A man without words is a man without thought.

All of them had a restlessness in common.

I have taken as much as six years to prepare a book for writing. There is such a delirium of effort in the production of a book; it's like childbirth. And, like childbirth, one forgets the pains immediately so that when you come to write another one you dare to take it up again. Some precious anesthesia sees you through.

He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.

Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all else, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word.