Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish.

Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys?

There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the ugly and crippling kind. The other is an outpouring of everything good in you — of kindness and consideration and respect — not only the social respect of manners but the greater respect which is recognition of another person as unique and valuable. The first kind can make you sick and small and weak but the second can release in you strength, and courage and goodness and even wisdom you didn’t know you had.

Texas has a tight cohesiveness perhaps stronger than any other section of America.

Once you have lived in New York and made it your home, no place else is good enough

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.

There's more beauty in the truth even if it is dreadful beauty.