I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the summer -- and what trees and seasons smelled like -- how people looked and walked and smelled even. The memory of odors is very rich.

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

A man with a beard was always a little suspect anyway. You couldn't say you wore a beard because you liked a beard. People didn't like you for telling the truth. You had to say you had a scar so you couldn't shave.

Man has become our greatest hazard, and our only hope.

It don't cost money to ask.

We have not known a single great scientist who could not discourse freely and interestingly with a child. Can it be that haters of clarity have nothing to say, have observed nothing, have no clear picture of even their own fields?

for how can you remember the feel of pleasure or pain or choking emotion? You can remember only that you had them.