In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms

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.

And their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels.

People do not want advice - they want corroboration.

The candle aimed its spark of light at heaven, like an artist who consumes himself to become divine.

...men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secure certain food, where men hungering for love destroy everything lovable about them.

One can't be happy as I have been for very long. There's a law against it. I have worked hard and enjoyed my work and it is the punishment of man to hate his work. Sooner or later I will have work that I hate.