You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.

I've always taken my hangovers as consequence, not as a punishment.

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

Change was everywhere. People were gone, or changed, and that was almost like being gone.

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

I had seen so many begin to pack their lives in cotton woool, smother their impulses, hood their passions, and gradually retire from their manhood into a kind of spiritual and physical semi-invalidism. In this they are encouraged by wives and relatives, and it's such a sweet trap.

The comfortable people in tight houses felt pity at first, and then distaste, and finally hatred for the migrant people.