Money is not nice. Money got no friends but more money.

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.

'He's got a can up there,' Richard said.

It was a day as different from other days as dogs are from cats and both of them from chrysanthemums or tidal waves or scarlet fever.

People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don't dream at all.

A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean question: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well - or ill?

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.