Some men ease themselves like setting hens into the nest of death.

Do you think it's funny to be so serious when I'm not even out of high school?' she asked. 'I don't see how it could be any other way,' said Lee. 'Laughter comes later, like wisdom teeth, and laughter at yourself comes last of all in a mad race with death, and sometimes it isn't in time.

Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby those fruits may be eaten.

If you are in love-that's a good thing-that's about the best thing that can happen to anyone.

Everyone I have ever known very well has been concerned that I would eventually starve. Probably I shall. It isn't important enough to me to be an obsession.

Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes it'll on'y be one.

There are places in this world where fable, myth, preconception, love, longing or prejudice step in and so distort a cool, clear appraisal that a kind of high colored magical confusion takes permanent hold...Surely Texas is such a place.