I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.

If it's a beautiful day, I love taking walks. The walks are always aimless.

The most powerful force in American politics is not anger, it's nostalgia.

The replenishing thing that comes with a nap - you end up with two mornings in a day.

I was the oldest of seven kids, so I had no older brother who would say, 'Schmuck, don't do that.'

Everybody who went to Vietnam carries his or her own version of the war. Only 10 percent engaged in combat; the American elephant, pursuing the Vietnamese grasshopper, was extraordinarily heavy with logistical support.

There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women, the fortunes, the football players and the murders are all bigger than anywhere else.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a newspaperman originally in Colombia. He talked about - and I agree - how everybody has a public life, a private life, and a secret life.

For me reading a book is what I like doing, curled up in a corner in a comfortable chair.