The most beautiful, the most spirited and the most inspiring creature ever to print foot on the grasses of America.

Luck is being ready for the chance.

No cowboy ever quit while his life was hardest and his duties were most exacting.

The man for whom history is bunk is almost invariably as obtuse to the future as he is blind to the past.

I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth.

The average Ph.D. Thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.

Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil.

When I get ready to explain homemade fascism in America, I can take my example from the state capitol of Texas.

Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness.

The boundaries of culture and rainfall never follow survey lines.

The average PhD thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.

Maybe poetry's not so important, but ... it makes life worth living.

I find no fault with the Constitution or laws of our country, they are good enough. It is the abuse of those laws which I despise, and which God, good men and angels abhor.

Righteousness and generosity are inseparable. The person whose heart longs for God also longs to give to others.

Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears; there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.

Novels, in my experience, are slow in coming, and once I've begun them I know I have years rather than months of work ahead of me.

Don't learn safety by accident.

So DeCSS didn't introduce anything new for pirating and had already been available.

My parents split up when I was about 2. I realize more and more how much I'm like my father. My gentleness comes from my mother.

Put me up in front of a million people and ask me to speak. I'll flop. But put me behind my drums and I'll always go with it.

Stories work, if they have a beginning, middle and end.