My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.

My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements.

Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?

Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.

What is the definition of guts? Grace under pressure.