Too much principle is often more harmful than too little.

I ain't never seen no head so level that it could bear the lettin' in of politics.

... beauty, like ecstasy, has always been hostile to the commonplace. And the commonplace, under its popular label of the normal,has been the supreme authority for Homo sapiens since the days when he was probably arboreal.

[Reformers] might be classified as a distinct species having eyes in the back of their heads.

But there is, I have learned, no permanent escape from the past. It may be an unrecognized law of our nature that we should be drawn back, inevitably, to the place where we have suffered most.

A farmer's got to be born, same as a fool. You can't make a corn pone out of flour dough by the twistin' of it.

The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living.