You can't slice up morals.

There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp.

What hidden, hoarded longings there are in all of us.

I think of my life as a kind of music, not always good music but still having form and melody.

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.

The dairy man had a Ph.D. in mathematics, and he must have had some training in philosophy. He liked what he was doing and he didn't want to be somewhere else - one of the few contented people I met in my whole journey.

I do not find illness an eminence, and I do not understand how people can use it to draw attention to themselves since the attention they draw is nearly always reluctantly given and unpleasantly carried out.