The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living.
The surest way of winning love is to look as if you didn't need it.
I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em.
O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!
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.
Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.