Most of the men regarded Europe as a wine list. In their mental geography Rheims, Rhine, Moselle, Bordeaux, Champagne, or Würzburg were not localities but libations.

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.

Sometimes I think the loneliness inside of me is going to explode through my skin and sometimes im not sure if crying or screaming or laughing through the hysteria will solve anything at all

A partial truth is the most common path to an entire lie.

HE who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.

Perhaps the greatest paradox of all is that there are paradoxes in mathematics.

A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

The party out of office becomes the articulate one.

Words must be taken according to the matter whereof they are uttered.

No man rides harder than my Lord Scamperdale - always goes as if he had a spare neck in his pocket.

never trust a man who won't accept that there is more than one way to spell a word Paraphrased