That man who is more then his elements knows the land that is more than its analysis.

Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all else, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word.

I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for that is one thing which can by inspection destroy such a system. Surely I can understand this, and I hate it and I will fight against it to preserve the one thing that separates us from the uncreative beasts. If the glory can be killed, we are lost.

To be alive at all is to have scars.

The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for they can only feel bitterness in loss and no joy in gain.

When you're huntin' somepin you're a hunter, an' you're strong. Can't nobody beat a hunter. But when you get hunted - that's different. Somepin happens to you. You ain't strong: maybe you're fierce, but you ain't strong." - Muley

It's one of the great fallacies, it seems to me, that time gives much of anything but years and sadness to man.