Thou mayest rule over sin.

A study of animal communities has this advantage: they are merely what they are, for anyone to see who will and can look clearly; they cannot complicate the picture by worded idealisms, by saying one thing and being another; here the struggle is unmasked and the beauty is unmasked.

One pays for everything, the trick is not to pay too much of anything for anything.

A question is a trap and an answer is your foot in it.

There are places in this world where fable, myth, preconception, love, longing or prejudice step in and so distort a cool, clear appraisal that a kind of high colored magical confusion takes permanent hold...Surely Texas is such a place.

Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.

Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.