Pictures... are also opinions... [they] set down what the camera operator sees and he sees what he wants to see and what he loves and hates and pities and is proud of.

And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.

A funeral isn't for the dead. You'll simply be a stage set for a kind of festival maybe. And besides, you won't even be there.

We gather our arms full of guilt as though it were precious stuff. It must be that we want it that way.

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

Positano bites deep. It is a dream place that isn’t quite real when you are there and becomes beckoningly real after you have gone.

And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, "Use it well, use it wisely.