A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike.

..it's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world...It makes you mean, and violent, and cruel.

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

Then it is better, sir, to love whom one cannot have?" "Probably better," Lancelot said. "Certainly safer.

People need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it.

This is the thing to bomb. This is the beginning—from "I" to "we". If you who own the things people must have could understand this, you might preserve yourself. If you could separate causes from results, if you could know that Paine, Marx, Jefferson, Lenin were results, not causes, you might survive. But that you cannot know. For the quality of owning freezes you forever into "I", and cuts you off forever from the "we".

Only mediocrity escapes criticism.