I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.

There are two kinds of people in the world, observers and non-observers.

Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans

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

I'll want to hear,' Samuel said. 'I eat stories like grapes.

To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.

Lennie said quietly, "It ain't no lie. We're gonna do it. Gonna get a little place an' live on the fatta the lan'.