Human beings want to know too much abut each other, and that's why there are so many lies.

There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women, the fortunes, the football players and the murders are all bigger than anywhere else.

Writing is the hardest work in the world not involving heavy lifting.

Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball.

He tried to imagine the sound of the color red.

The library is a place where most of the things I came to value as an adult had their beginnings.

For those without money, the road to the treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.