... you must not expect to find that people understand what they do.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

When you're a child you're the center of everything. Everything happens for you. Other people? They're only ghosts furnished for you to talk to.

Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won't all be poor.

Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

I have written a great many stories and I still don't know how to go about it except to write it and take my chances.