The land is so much more than its analysis.
A man without words is a man without thought.
Do you know, I am putting off ending this letter as though the end would be the end of something I want to hold on to. That's not true of course - just a feeling like the quick one of hexing your trip...
One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.
I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that'swhy.
Ghosts could walk freely tonight, without fear of the disbelief of men; for this night was haunted, and it would be an insensitive man who did not know it.
This time last year I would have run to Sam Hamilton to talk.""Maybe both of us have got a piece of him," said Lee. Maybe that's what immortality is.
Liza hated alcoholic liquors with an iron zeal. Drinking alcohol in any form she regarded as a crime against a properly outraged deity... When LIza was about seventy her elimination slowed up and her...
What freedom men and women could have, were they not constantly tricked and trapped and enslaved and tortured by their sexuality! The only drawback in that freedom is that without it one would not be...
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
I've lived in a good climate, and it bores the hell out of me.
Curious how a place unvisited can take such hold on the mind so that the very name sets up a ringing.
Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.
It is possible, even probable, to be told a truth about a place, to accept it, to know it and at the same time not to know anything about it.
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. And this is true to the extent that people either passionately love Texa...
A new country seems to follow a pattern. First come the openers, strong and brave and rather childlike. They can take care of themselves in a wilderness, but they are naive and helpless against men, a...
A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their violence for the promise of a small increase of life span. In effect, the head of the house becomes the youngest child. And I have sea...
A man who writes a story is forced to put into it the best of his knowledge and the best of his feeling. The discipline of the written word punishes stupidity and dishonesty. A writer lives in awe of...