Rich, poor, Panhandle, Gulf, city, country, Texas is the obsession, the proper study, and the passionate possession of all Texans.

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

It is the nature of a person as he/she grows older to protest against change, particularly changes for the better.

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

He never forgot anything but he never bothered to arrange his memories. -Hazel, Cannery Row

Perhaps it takes courage to raise children.

A good writer always works at the impossible.There is another kind who pulls in his horizons, drops his mind as one lowers rifle sights.