A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.

I guess I'm trying to say, Grab anything that goes by. It may not come around again.

There are places in this world where fable, myth, preconception, love, longing or prejudice step in and so distort a cool, clear appraisal that a kind of high colored magical confusion takes permanent hold...Surely Texas is such a place.

But you must give him some sign, some sign that you love him... or he'll never be a man. All his life he'll feel guilty and alone unless you release him.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do...Try to be better than yourself.

For the world was changing, and sweetness was gone, and virtue too. Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was lost- good manners, ease and beauty? Ladies were not ladies anymore, and you couldn't trust a gentleman's word.