Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page a day, it helps. Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised.

If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to a recipe that can be passed from one person to another.

A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief.

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

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

In business and in politics a man must carve and maul his way through men to get to be King of the Mountain. Once there, he can be great and kind-but he must get there first.

Man has become our greatest hazard, and our only hope.