I see too many men delay their exits with a sickly, slow reluctance to leave the stage. It's bad theater as well as bad living.

In nature two things do not occur-the wheel and good taste.

Like most passionate nations, Texas has its own history based on, but not limited by, facts.

Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.

You stay out here a little while, an' if you smell any roses, you come let me smell, too.

The curious hocus-pocus of criticism I can't take seriously. It consists in squirreling up some odd phrases and then waiting for a book to come running by.

In the streets of New York between seven and nine in the morning you will see the slow procession of dog and downer proceeding from street to tree to hydrant to trash basket. They are apartment dogs. They are taken out twice a day, and, while it is a cliché, it is truly amazing how owner and dog resemble each other. They grow to walk alike and have the same set of head.