Hate cannot live alone. It must have love as a trigger, a goad, or a stimulant.

And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.

Many are the stories I have heard about myself. I have mistresses I have never met. When I hear that I am a sodomist and a zoophalist then I shall know that I have reached the high point of fame, but I suppose I can hardly expect such exaltation for many years.

Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged and sold without benefit of accident or human frailty, is uniformly good and uniformly tasteless, so will our speech become one speech.

It sometimes happens that what you feel is not returned for one reason or another-but that does not make your feeling less valuable and good.

Wherever you can look - wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there.

I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique closely approximating a religion.