Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

If I was alone I could live so easy. I could go get a job an' work, an' no trouble.

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.

Well, I never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy. I just like to know what your interest is.

I dislike helplessness in other people and in myself, and this is by far my greatest fear of illness.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

You stay out here a little while, an' if you smell any roses, you come let me smell, too.