I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why.

Socialism never took root in America.

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 sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

When the virus of restlessness begins to take possession of a wayward man, and the road away from Here seems broad and straight and sweet, the victim must first find himself a good and sufficient reason for going.

Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of a human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed

You can boast about anything if it's all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.