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

I nearly always write — just as I nearly always breathe.

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

I don’t mind getting smacked on the chin. I just don’t want to get nibbled to death. There’s a difference.

New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous. But there is one thing about it - once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.

Thou mayest rule over sin.

Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans