Quotes
When I see young people such as those of our day, I think that Heaven wishes to destroy the world.
Ask the young. They know everything.
Writers are a sorry lot. The best you can say of them is that they are better than actors and that's not much.
When we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and must, it will be possible to drive from New York to California without seeing a single thing.
Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word. And there’s an opening covey of generalities. A Texan outside of Texas is a foreigner.
The techniques of opening conversation are universal. I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention, help, and conversation is to be lost. A man who seeing his mother starving to death on a path kicks her in the stomach to clear the way, will cheerfully devote several hours of his time giving wrong directions to a total stranger who claims to be lost.
Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is — and a woman too, I guess.
They successfully combined piracy and puritanism, which aren't so unlike when you come right down to it. Both had a strong dislike for opposition and both had a roving eye for other people's property.
Even if teen-age children aren't making a sound, it's quieter when they're gone. They put a boiling in the air around them. As they left, the whole house seemed to sigh and settle. No wonder poltergeists infest only houses with adolescent children.
I have known many people to ask for advice but very few who wanted it and none who followed it.
I don't anticipate trouble and so I anticipate trouble.
You are a good man, Sire, and a good man draws women as cheese draws mice.
