To a monster the norm must seem monstrous, since everyone is normal to himself.

The story [Henny-Penny] has the best opening in all literature-"The sky is falling," cried Henny-Penny, "and a piece of it fell on my tail.

Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.

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

Rich, poor, Panhandle, Gulf, city, country, Texas is the obsession, the proper study, and the passionate possession of all Texans.

And now the forces marshaled around the concept of the group have declared a war of extermination on that preciousness, the mind of man.

The direction of a big act will warp history, but probably all acts do the same in their degree, down to a stone stepped over in the path or the breath caught at sight of a pretty girl or a fingernail nicked in the garden soil.