Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all else, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word.
If you want to keep a friend, never test him.
If a man ordered a beer milk shake, he thought, he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known.
Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes it'll on'y be one.
I wrote The Grapes of Wrath in one hundred days, but many years of preparation preceded it.