I'll want to hear,' Samuel said. 'I eat stories like grapes.

I know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. A confused people can make no clear demands.

Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.

In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself.

A stilted heron labored up into the air and pounded down the river.

Texas has a tight cohesiveness perhaps stronger than any other section of America.

Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it. Is there a check in men, deep in them, that stops or punishes? There doesn't seem to be. The only punishment is for failure. In effect no crime is committed unless a criminal is caught.