Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic.

Perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope.

Have fun, entertain yourself with your work, make yourself laugh and cry with your own stories, make yourself shiver in suspense along with your characters. If you can do that, then you will most likely find a large audience; but even if a large audience is never found, you'll have a happy life.

That was interesting, riding in the trunk," Milo said, "but I wouldn't want to do it again.

Maybe there's nothing impossible tonight. We're down the hole to Wonderland, and no White Rabbit to guide us." If I remember correctly, the White Rabbit was an unreliable guide, anyway.

Night has patterns that can be read less by the living than by the dead.

What has been is no more. Change has come.