life passes by in a wink so try to never miss a moment of it

We gather our arms full of guilt as though it were precious stuff. It must be that we want it that way.

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

It seems to me Montana is a great splash of grandeur. The scale is huge but not overpowering. The land is rich with grass and color, and the mountains are the kind I would create if mountains were ever put on my agenda.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

I have thought that men and women should never come together except in bed. There is the only place where their natural hatred of each other is not so apparent.

I have taken as much as six years to prepare a book for writing. There is such a delirium of effort in the production of a book; it's like childbirth. And, like childbirth, one forgets the pains immediately so that when you come to write another one you dare to take it up again. Some precious anesthesia sees you through.