though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price.

O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!

What I hated even more than the conflict was the lurid spectacle of a world of unreason.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

The truth is I've got the land on my back, an' it's drivin' me. Land is a hard driver.

for my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated.

Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.