I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments

The American girl makes a servant of her husband and then finds him contemptible for being a servant

It was a day as different from other days as dogs are from cats and both of them from chrysanthemums or tidal waves or scarlet fever.

Like most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it.

Well, I remember this girl. I am not whole without her. I am not alive without her. When she was with me I was more alive than I have ever been, and not only when she was pleasant either. Even when we were fighting I was whole.

I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique closely approximating a religion.

A woman journalist in England asked me why Americans usually wrote about their childhood and a past that happened only in imagination, why they never wrote about the present. This bothered me until I realized why - that a novelist wants to know how it comes out, that he can't be omnipotent writing a book about the present, particularly this one.