William Faulkner

...and you don't even have to sleep alone, you don't even have to sleep at all; and so, all you have to do is show the stick to the dog now and then and say, 'Thank God for nothing.'

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

A man or a race either if he's any good can survive his past without even needing to escape from it and not because of the high quite often only too rhetorical rhetoric of humanity but for the simple indubitable practical reason of his future: that capacity to survive and absorb and endure and still be steadfast.

Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.

If a story is in you, it has to come out.

Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.

We have all heard what we wanted to hear! Truth that sounds right to our ears!

A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune

The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.