There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.

We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.

We are homesick most for the places we have never known.

Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.

The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.

Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It's standing in love that matters.

How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?

The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.

Love is a joint experience between two persons -- but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.

The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep

You owe it to your inner-self to never allow your past to take the place of your present or future.

It is possible to own too much. A man with one watch knows what time it is a man with two watches is never quite sure.

If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime.

To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible; to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that future.

I've always been intrigued by fighter pilots and strategy because it occurs in like, milliseconds, you know.

No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot.

I don't have to many friends, I have 5 or 6 boys in my life that never change no matter what.

Oh, wouldn't the world seem dull and flat with nothing whatever to grumble at?

In addition to the dread of Indians, Texas held out no inducements for Mexican emigrants.