Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing - for life itself is a writer's love until death.

Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.

We no longer build fireplaces for physical warmth—we build them for the warmth of the soul; we build them to dream by, to hope by, to home by.

The goat's business is none of the sheep's concern.

Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

A closed mind is a dying mind.

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.

It was part of theTexas ritual? We know about champagne and caviar but we talk hog and hominy.

There are only two kinds of people in the world that really count. One kind's wheat and the other kind's emeralds.

Funny, isn't it, how your whole life goes by while you think you're only planning the way you're going to live it?

The feminine in the man is the sugar in the whisky. The masculine in the woman is the yeast in the bread. Without these ingredients the result is flat, without tang or flavor.

If history is written by the victorious, what if the victors lied?

In the beginning was the sea, and the sea was the world

The feast of reason and the flow of soul.

Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.

Finally, and most of all, words failed him.

And it should be something that only that group of people could've made with everybody invested.

Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.

I think good books have to make a few people angry.

In me, speaking psychologically, there is always an ongoing struggle between my enormously self-regarding, almost delusionally aspirational, Napoleonic personality and a marginalized one.

We don't build a record. We're taking a picture of it. We're not building an image; we're capturing an image.