It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.

The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person. All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.

All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.

I want - I want - I want - was all that she could think about - but just what this real want was she did not know.

Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was natural and right and just - when all along we knew it wasn't.

Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.

Some men are heroes by nature in that they will give all that is in them without regard to the effort or to the personal returns.