If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.

I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique closely approximating a religion.

He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.

My whole work drive has been aimed at making people understand each other. . .

And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

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.