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The grass is always greener on the other side. We are busy applying fairness creams while people in the West go bare-bodied on the beach to get a tan. Indian girls have ruled the roost when it comes to beauty pageants. I flaunt my complexion, and I am proud to be noticed as an Indian wherever I go.

Its liquor is like the sweetest dew from Heaven.

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.

Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying... Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die.

The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.

People of my age who went to college, go into college, you know what it cost back then? Nothing or next to nothing. At the most, you had to work at Dairy Queen during the summer and that would pay for your college education.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

make the most of the day, by determining to spend it on two sorts of acquaintances only - those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something may be learned. - Colton

I'm pretty outspoken.

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

When I see God I see Beauty, I see Love, I see Joy, I see Peace and I see You. God loves us let us love one another.

If I'm walking on thin ice, I might as well dance my way across.

Transcendence begins when you realize that you are a law of nature.

There's a lot of guys that just get comfortable with their positions and rest on their laurels. I had to earn my way.

When I was in the state legislature, we asked for different examples of voter fraud, and the Republicans could never produce any sort of in-person voter fraud examples.

I struggle off the tee. If I can hit my driver straight, then I'm usually playing well.

If I had been born in the circus, my parents would have pushed me on that little high wire at four years old. That's when the body is most limber to learn those acrobatics.

There are two MFA programs here at the University of Texas, and I read on the jury of both of them. And it's amazing to me how many really talented young writers seem to fear humor.

Learn to trust yourself and you will create a meaningful life.

Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.