Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

How could anything non-controversial be of intellectual interest to grown-ups?

Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.

The world is what it is, no less and no more, and therein lies its entire and sufficient meaning.

An empty man is full of himself.

A city man is a home anywhere, for all big cities are much alike. But a country man has a place where he belongs, where he always returns, and where, when the time comes, he is willing to die.

Preacher to me: 'A dollar for the Lord, brother?' Me to preacher: 'That's all right, I'm headed his way. I'll give it to him when I see him.'