No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe

Prayer never brought in no side-meat. Takes a shoat to bring in pork.

So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic because we don't want them around us and we don't dare throw them out.

I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why.

...men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secure certain food, where men hungering for love destroy everything lovable about them.

I wonder why it is that when I plan a route too carefully, it goes to pieces, whereas if I blunder along in blissful ignorance aimed in a fancied direction I get through with no trouble.

A Texan outside of Texas is a foreigner.