The warfare between the unaroused male and female is constant and ferocious. Each blames the other for his loss of soul.

He saw something that makes a man doubtful of the constancy of the realities outside himself. It was the shocking discovery that makes a man wonder if I've missed this, what else have I failed to see?

There's a responsibility in being a person. It's more than just taking up space where air would be.

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

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.

The quality of owning freezes you forever in "I," and cuts you off forever from the "we.

Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes it'll on'y be one.