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

A woman holds dreadful power over a man who is in love with her but she should realize that the quality and force of his love is the index of his potential contempt and hatred.

I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for that is one thing which can by inspection destroy such a system. Surely I can understand this, and I hate it and I will fight against it to preserve the one thing that separates us from the uncreative beasts. If the glory can be killed, we are lost.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

It's almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

He said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god.