You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all else, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word.
There is nothing in the world like the first taste of beer.
Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda.
The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.
The trash and litter of nature disappears into the ground with the passing of each year, but man’s litter has more permanence.
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.
We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.
The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It requires tough and devoted people to keep it alive.
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments.
Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.
I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?
An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.
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.
The object of love is the best and most beautiful. Try to live up to it.
The mountains of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use. In this, if in no other way, we can see the wild and reckless exuberance of our production, and waste seems to be the index.
I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.
A man without words is a man without thought.