The hitter can never be the judge. Only the receiver of the blow can tell you how hard it was, whether it would kill a man or make a baby just yawn.

The hitter can never be the judge. Only the receiver of the blow can tell you how hard it was, whether it would kill a man or make a baby just yawn.

Calvin had long been uneasy in his own person and so lived to put everyone else at ease.

At first I read mostly books by Southern authors - black and white - because almost all the people I knew were born and raised in the South, starting with my mother. I remember I got a lot of Erskine Caldwell.

We are all worthy of one another.

Until I can read a story physically, with the eyes, it doesn't seem to exist for me.

I'm fascinated by the awful, awful things that human beings do to each other.