Larry McMurtry

Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.

Americans don't want cowboys to be gay.

A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.

If you wait all that happens is that you get older.

In times of crisis human beings dont have it in them to be rational.

Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. It's not easy even to get a rural story made.

The whole point of loyalty was not to change stick with those who stuck with you.

One of the things that Ang brings to all of his projects is his deep sense of being a double exile, an outsider's outsider.

The older the violin, the sweeter the music.

You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination.

If you wait all that happens is you get older.

Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.

I dont see how being married could be any worse than listening to you talk for twenty years but that still aint much of a recommendation for it.

Yesterdays gone on down the river and you cant get it back.

Self-parody is the first portent of age.

True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends - and he accepts it.

No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.

If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.