Well, I never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy. I just like to know what your interest is.

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can only read a few and those perhaps not accurately.

It's one of the great fallacies, it seems to me, that time gives much of anything but years and sadness to man.

I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation- a burning desire to go, to move, to get under way, anyplace, away from any Here. They spoke quietly of how they wanted to go someday, to move about, free and unanchored, not toward something but away from something. I saw this look and heard this yearning everywhere in every states I visited. Nearly every American hungers to move.

Like most passionate nations, Texas has its own history based on, but not limited by, facts.

A little hope, even hopeless hope, never hurt anybody.