A good writer always works at the impossible.

The camera need not be a cold mechanical device. Like the pen, it is as good as the man who uses it. It can be the extension of mind and heart.

The proofs that God does not exist are very strong, but in lots of people they are not as strong as the feeling that He does.

Ever'body's askin' that. "What we comin' to?" Seems to me we don't never come to nothin'. Always on the way.

Texas is not a state - it's a state of mind.

I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for that is one thing which can by inspection destroy such a system. Surely I can understand this, and I hate it and I will fight against it to preserve the one thing that separates us from the uncreative beasts. If the glory can be killed, we are lost.

You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent for the future.