We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

It is possible, even probable, to be told a truth about a place, to accept it, to know it and at the same time not to know anything about it.

Show me the man who isn't interested in discussing himself.

The first grave. Now we're getting someplace. Houses and children and graves, that's home, Tom. Those are the things that hold a man down.

The craft of writing is the art of penetrating other minds with the figures that are in your own mind.

Like most passionate nations, Texas has its own history based on, but not limited by, facts.

And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.