There are only two kinds of people in the world that really count. One kind's wheat and the other kind's emeralds.

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.

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.

Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death – fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant.

Measured with magnetic field meters, the electromagnetic field that the heart produces is some 5, 000 times more powerful than that created by the brain.

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so wel

Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.

I don't believe in competition, ain't nobody else like me around

The true artform is being a human being.

I've always found credit isn't just something you take - it's something people give you when they see how hard you're working.

I think it's better to attempt something and fail than it is to not even attempt it, so I'm glad that I've been prepared to put myself on the line there.

I don't have the patience to sit and write.

I've never seen myself as an artist. So when that happened it was like a whole other crazy thing.

Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.