The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.

The ideal kitchen-sink novel: Throw in everything but the kitchen sink. Then add the kitchen sink.

In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth.

Roosters: The cry of the male chicken is the most barbaric yawp in all of nature.

There are two kinds of people I cannot abide: bigots and any well-organized ethnic group.

We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.

The writer concerned more with technique than truth becomes a technician, not an artist.