A fallow field is a sin.

When Kino had finished, Juana came back to the fire and ate her breakfast. They had spoken once, but there is not need for speech if it is only a habit anyway. Kino sighed with satisfaction - and that was conversation.

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.

The proofs that God does not exist are very strong, but in lots of people they are not as strong as the feeling that He does.

Wherever you can look - wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there.

The dairy man had a Ph.D. in mathematics, and he must have had some training in philosophy. He liked what he was doing and he didn't want to be somewhere else - one of the few contented people I met in my whole journey.

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