There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.

The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.

What do you mean less than nothing? I don't think there is any such thing as less than nothing. Nothing is absolutely the limit of nothingness. It's the lowest you can go. It's the end of the line. How can something be less than nothing? If there were something that was less than nothing, then nothing would not be nothing, it would be something - even though it's just a very little bit of something. But if nothing is nothing, then nothing has nothing that is less than it is.

Life is always rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch.

Advice to young writers wo want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man, write about a man.

I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. "Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.

The South is the land of the sustained sibilant. Everywhere, for the appreciative visitor, the letter "s" insinuates itself in the scene: in the sound of sea and sand, in the singing shell, in the heat of sun and sky, in the sultriness of the gentle hours, in the siesta, in the stir of birds and insects.