No one in the United States has the right to own millions of acres of American land, I don't care how they came by it.

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.

I believe that open-heart surgery is a mustfor all human beings

There is nothing wrong with falling in love. Don't trip and bump your head only to realize you're experiencing infatuation.

Adventure is really always just subjecting yourself to something unfamiliar

So much of what happens by chance forms what becomes your life.

Being called weird is like being called Limited Edition. Meaning youre something people dont see that often.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

How can I give more than is expected of me?

Within America, there are extremely different place. I'm not saying it's one homogenous color. It's obviously an incredible place. There's no other place like it, and it's incredibly diverse.

Good writin' ain't necessarily good readin'.

Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down ? That's not my department.