All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.

Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all else, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word.

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

Within that frame he went a long way and burned a deep scar.

Kino heard the little splash of morning waves on the beach. It was very good -- Kino closed his eyes again to listen to his music.

The calm and the sorrow were so great that they bore down on his chest, and the loneliness was complete, a circle impenetrable.

Once you have lived in New York and made it your home, no place else is good enough.

You're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow that can't talk.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do...Try to be better than yourself.

There's nothing sadder to me than associations held together by nothing but the glue of postage stamps. If you can't see or hear or touch a man, it's best to let him go.

A good writer always works at the impossible.There is another kind who pulls in his horizons, drops his mind as one lowers rifle sights.

Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it.

She sighed as she always does, a deep, gathered breath and a low release of luxury. Some people resent awakening, but not Mary. She comes to a day with the expectancy that it will be good.

Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.

Humanity has been passing through a gray and desolate time of confusion.

In human affairs of danger and delicacy successful conclusion is sharply limited by hurry.

There's more beauty in the truth even if it is dreadful beauty.

And I here make a rule-a great and lasting story is about everyone or it will not last. The strange and foreign is not interesting-only the deeply personal and familiar.

They had not grown up in the paradoxes of industry. Their senses were still sharp to the ridiculousness of the industrial life.

A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger than a man on foot.