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

When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate.

(Suicide) takes some doing, with maybe pain and maybe hell.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policies and coercion are fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads.

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

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.