Larry McMurtry

“The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.”

“If you wait, all of life will be that way.”

“It's a fine world, though rich in hardships at times.”

“Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken-fried steak.”

“A woman's love is a powerful thing, Callahan. It can make a man a fool or a hero, but it always changes him.”

“The older the violin, the sweeter the music.”

“It ain't dying I'm talking about, it's living.”

“Yesterday's gone, and we can't get it back.”

“The task of the novelist is to deepen the mystery.”

“Love is the strangest, most illogical thing in the world.”

“Life in a small town is like living in a large family of rather uncongenial relations. Sometimes it's fun, and sometimes it's perfectly awful, but it's always good for you.”

“The bookshops are gone, and the bookbuyers with them. That has been the saddest thing in my life.”

“I'm a farmer with a book problem.”

“Reading is a collaborative act.”

“Cowboys are the only heroes America has ever had.”

“The best things in life are a matter of taste, after all.”

“I am a bookman. I have been a bookman my whole life.”

“Most people are fools, and all people are fools in love.”