[He] fell right into the oldest conviction in the world-- that the girl you are in love with can't possibly be anything but true and honest.

The words are meaningless except in terms of feeling. Does anyone act as the result of thought or does feeling stimulate action and sometimes thought implement it.

'He's got a can up there,' Richard said.

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

He said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god.

Give me a used Bible and I will, I think, be able to tell you about a man by the places that are edged with the dirt of seeking fingers.

At one point, as Samuel urges Adam to raise his boys well regardless of the blood that might be in them, Adam tells him, "You can't make a race horse of a pig." Samuel replies, "No, but you can make a very fast pig.