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

a successful politician does not have convictions; he has emotions.

She must face her grief where the struggle is always hardest-in the place where each trivial object is attended by pleasant memories.

Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an event happens once in a life, it may be depended upon to repeat later its general design.

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

The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing, can spring openly from some rotted substance within our civilization.

America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind.