Texas is not a state - it's a state of mind.

A good writer always works at the impossible.

In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.

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

Such is the prestige of the Nobel Award and of this place where I stand that I am impelled, not to speak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession and in the great and good men who have practised it through the ages.

I am a little man and this is a little town, but there must be a spark in little men that can burst into flame.

I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.