One pays for everything, the trick is not to pay too much of anything for anything.

The object of love is the best and most beautiful. Try to live up to it.

I have thought that men and women should never come together except in bed. There is the only place where their natural hatred of each other is not so apparent.

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.

This was an evil beyond thinking. The killing of a man was not so evil as the killing of a boat. For a boat does not have sons, and a boat cannot protect itself, and a wounded boat does not heal.

for how can you remember the feel of pleasure or pain or choking emotion? You can remember only that you had them.

How can the poem and the stink and the grating noise - the quality of light, the tone, the habit and the dream - be set down alive?