It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.

You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.

The direction of a big act will warp history, but probably all acts do the same in their degree, down to a stone stepped over in the path or the breath caught at sight of a pretty girl or a fingernail nicked in the garden soil.

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

At about 10 o'clock in the morning the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side windows and in and out of the beam flies shot like rushing stars.

I think bullfights are for men who aren't very brave and wish they were.

The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong.