Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

What hidden, hoarded longings there are in all of us.

It is the nature of a person as he/she grows older to protest against change, particularly changes for the better.

Texas has a tight cohesiveness perhaps stronger than any other section of America.

You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent for the future.

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

You're getting well,' Samuel said. 'Some people think it's an insult to the glory of their sickness to get well. But the time poultice is no respecter of glories. Everyone gets well if he waits around.